Transfer of the Indian species formerly included in the genus Lutica Marx, 1891 to Tropizodium Jocqué & Churchill, 2005 and Zodarion Walckenaer, 1826 (Araneae Zodariidae)
Author
Sankaran, Pradeep M.
Author
Caleb, John T. D.
Author
Sebastian, Pothalil A.
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-08-21
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Tropizodium poonaensis
(
Tikader, 1981
)
comb. nov.
(
Fig. 3
A–I)
Lutica poonaensis
Tikader, 1981: 139
, figs 5–10 (Description and illustrations of male and female).
Type material.
Holotype
female from
INDIA
:
Maharashtra
: Pune (=Poona): flower garden in Pune University compound (
18
o
33’16.28’’N
,
73
o
49’32.48’’E
),
581 m
alt.; B.K. Tikader leg.;
28 March 1980
; repository NZC-ZSI, Kolkata (no register number), examined.
Paratype
(
6 females
, no register number) and
allotype
(
4 males
, no register number) with same data as
holotype
, examined.
Type material status.
The ZSI collection has three glass bottles for this species. The first bottle, labelled as ‘holotype’, contains one female specimen in good condition. The same bottle has a small glass vial containing the dissected genitalia of the
holotype
. The second bottle labelled as ‘paratype’, contains, instead of six females, five female specimens and one juvenile in good condition. The third bottle, labelled as ‘allotype’, contains four highly bleached males.
Justification of transfer.
Tikader (1981)
described this species on the basis of six females, four males and a juvenile specimen collected in
Maharashtra
. Detailed examination of the
holotype
(
Fig. 3A
, C–D) and the
paratype
(
Fig. 3E
) suggests that this species has all the diagnostic features of
Tropizodium
: AME largest, small intercheliceral triangle, epigyne posteriorly with central depression and distantly lying globular spermathecae lacking clearly defined copulatory ducts. Based on these observations, we propose to transfer
L
.
poonaensis
to
Tropizodium
.