Zoropsidae Bertkau, 1882

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 : 64

Zoropsidae Bertkau, 1882

TypE gEnus Zoropsis SImOn, 1878 : 327 (TypE spEcIEs by mOnOtypy: Dolomedes spinimanus DuFOur, 1820)

Diagnosis. Zoropsidae were radically redelimited by Polotow et al. (2015) and are consistently supported by molecular data, as well as by three homoplastic morphological synapomorphies on the male palp: presence of a type 2 ventral tibial process, a rounded to oval cymbium ( Figs 9E , 11A , 12A ) and a cymbial retrolateral process (absent from Devendra ).

Composition. The family includes 26 genera and 178 species, distributed among four subfamilies.

Distribution. Worldwide.

Note on Griswoldiinae. The genus Devendra was placed in Machadoniinae (Miturgidae) by Lehtinen (1967: 318), later ( Griswold 1993; Raven & Stumkat 2005) the genus was related to Phanotea and Griswoldia (ex Machadonia). Silva Dávila (2003) recognized a clade named as “phanoteans” including Griswoldia , Phanotea and an undescribed Chilean spider (later placed in Zoropsidae by Piacentini et al. 2013). The subfamily Griswoldiinae ( Zoropsidae ) was proposed by Raven & Stumkat (2005), enlarged with the inclusion of the South American genera Itatiaya Mello-Leitão, 1915 ( Polotow & Brescovit 2006; 2010) and Cauquenia Piacentini et al., 2013 , and recently redefined (Polotow et al. 2015) to include genera from Africa ( Griswoldia and Phanotea ), Australia ( Austrotengella Raven, 2012 ), South America ( Itatiaya and Cauquenia ) and Sri Lanka ( Devendra ).

Figures

FIGURE 9. Devendra spp. (A–C) D. pardalis (SImOn, 1898), FEmAlE; (A) hAbItus, dOrsAl VIEw; (B) AntErIOr VIEw OF OculAr ArEA;(C)EpIgynum, VEntrAl VIEw;(D–E) D. pumilus (SImOn, 1898), mAlE;(D)hAbItus,dOrsAl VIEw;(E)rIght pAlp,VEntrAl VIEw.

FIGURE 11. Devendra pumilus (SImOn, 1898), mAlE. (A–C) lEFt pAlp; (A) VEntrAl VIEw; (B) rEtrOlAtErAl VIEw; (C) prOlAtErAl VIEw.AbbrEVIAtIOns: C, cOnductOr; E, EmbOlus; MA, mEdIAn ApOphysIs; RTA, rEtrOlAtErAl tIbIAl ApOphysIs; ST, subtEgulum; T, tEgulum; TI, tIbIA.

FIGURE 12. Devendra seriatus (SImOn, 1898). (A–C) lEFt mAlE pAlp; (A) VEntrAl VIEw; (B) rEtrOlAtErAl VIEw; (C) prOlAtErAl VIEw; (D–F) FEmAlE EpIgynum; (D) VEntrAl VIEw; (E) dOrsAl VIEw; (F) rIght spErmAthEcA,dOrsAl, clEArEd, dEtAIl.AbbrEVIAtIOns: C, cOnductOr; CD, cOpulAtOry ducts; E, EmbOlus; FD, FErtIlIZAtIOn duct; LL, lAtErAl lObE OF EpIgynum; LP, lAtErAl prOcEss OF EpIgynum; MA, mEdIAn ApOphysIs; ML, mEdIAn lObE OF EpIgynum; RTA, rEtrOlAtErAl tIbIAl ApOphysIs; S, spErmAthEcAE; T, tEgulum; TI, tIbIA.