Udubidae Polotow & Griswold 2015

Polotow, Daniele & Griswold, Charles, 2017, Cleaning old cabinets: revealing the taxonomy of Sri Lankan wolf spiders (Araneae, Udubidae and Zoropsidae), Zootaxa 4362 (1), pp. 51-74 : 53

Udubidae Polotow & Griswold 2015

UdubIdAE POlOtOw & GrIswOld, 2015 : 151

TypE gEnus Uduba SImOn, 1880 : 343 (TypE spEcIEs by mOnOtypy: Olios madagascariensis VInsOn, 1863)

Diagnosis. Udubidae are supported by several homoplastic synapomorphies (Polotow et al. 2015: fig. 6), which can be used to distinguish them from other Oval Calamistrum clade families: absence of a serrula on the movable chela of the chelicerae, tibia of male palp with ventral apophysis, oval cross section of the embolus, tarsal organ with a key-hole shaped opening ( Fig. 1E ), tarsal trichobothria of equal length, male leg tibiae with crack ( Fig. 3E ), uniquely textured spermathecae and elongated posterior lateral spinnerets.

Composition. Campostichomma Karsch, 1892 ; Raecius Simon, 1892 ; Uduba Simon, 1880 and Zorodictyna Strand, 1907 .

Distribution. Tropical and sub-tropical Africa, Madagascar, and Sri Lanka.

Note. Campostichomma was not included as a terminal in the Polotow et al. (2015) analysis, but the genus presents the diagnostic morphological characters of Udubidae . Lehtinen (1967: 318) placed Campostichomma in his Machadoniinae (Miturgidae) along with Devendra . The close relationship of Campostichomma and Uduba was first proposed by Griswold (1993), recovered by Raven & Stumkat (2005) and was discussed by Griswold (2000) as a potential case of vicariance between Madagascar and Sri Lanka.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Campostichomma alawala sp. nov. (CASENT9067599), FEmAlE lEFt lEg I: (A) clAws; (B) tArsus (ArrOw pOInts tO tArsAl OrgAn); (C) mEtAtArsus, sEtAE And FEAthEry scAlEs; (D) tArsus-mEtAtArsus jOInt, shOwIng mEtAtArsAl stOppEr; (E) tArsAl OrgAn;(F) trIchObOthrIAl bAsE,tArsus.

FIGURE 3. Campostichomma manicatum KArsch, 1892. (A–D) mAlE lEFt pAlp; (A) VEntrAl VIEw, (B) rEtrOlAtErAl VIEw, (C) prOlAtErAl VIEw; (D) rIght pAlp, rEtrOlAtErAl VIEw, ExpAndEd; (E) mAlE lEg IV; (F–G) EpIgynum; (F) VEntrAl VIEw; (G) dOrsAl VIEw.AbbrEVIAtIOns:LO, lOckIng lObEs;TC, tIbIAl crAck.