Neobrettus tibialis ( Prószyński, 1978 )

Lin, Yejie, Wu, Lingbing, Cai, Ducheng, Li, Shuqiang, Barrion, Alberto Tomas & Heong, Kong-Luen, 2023, Review of 43 spider species from Hainan Island, China (Arachnida, Araneae), Zootaxa 5351 (5), pp. 501-533 : 513

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scientific name	Neobrettus tibialis ( Prószyński, 1978 )
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Neobrettus tibialis ( Prószyński, 1978) View in CoL View at ENA

Cyrba tibialis Prószyński, 1978: 19 , figs 25–27 (♁).

Neobrettus tibialis Wanless, 1984: 183 View in CoL , fig. 24A–H (♀); Banerjee et al., 2019: 1, figs 2.1–7, 3.1–4 (♁ ♀).

Neobrettus heongi Barrion & Barrion-Dupo View in CoL , in Barrion et al., 2013: 24, fig. 26A–F (♁ ♀). syn. nov.

For a complete list of taxonomic references see World Spider Catalog (2023).

Type material of Neobrettus heongi (examined). Holotype ♁ (coll. no. Dap 47), CHINA: Hainan Island, Dapo Town, Dapo Village , 25.III–9.IV.2012, leg. A. T. Barrion et al .; Paratypes: 2♁ 3♀ 3 juvenile, same data as holotype .

Description and diagnosis. See Banerjee et al. (2019) for an illustrated redescription and diagnosis of both sexes.

Distribution. China (Hainan), India, Bhutan and Malaysia.

Comments. The type material of N. heongi was examined and no differences were observed between the males and females of N. tibialis and N. heongi . Thus, N. heongi syn. nov. is treated here as a junior synonym of N. tibialis .