Thelcticopis maindroni Simon, 1906

Sankaran, Pradeep M., Sherwood, Danniella & Jäger, Peter, 2024, On the identity of species of the huntsman spider genus Thelcticopis Karsch, 1884 (Araneae: Sparassidae: Sparianthinae) from India, Myanmar, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, Zootaxa 5463 (3), pp. 301-338 : 314

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5463.3.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6E261F38-7196-4C87-AE81-E09996D055F4

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11611796

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7D6E8786-FFC1-FFB4-FF02-FA84D5C3BD4B

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Plazi

scientific name

Thelcticopis maindroni Simon, 1906
status

 

Thelcticopis maindroni Simon, 1906 View in CoL

Fig. 27 View FIGURE 27

Thelcticopis maindroni Simon, 1906: 295 View in CoL , fig. 2 (♂). Tikader & Sethi 1990: 184, figs 50–51 (♂).

Type material. Holotype ♂, INDIA: Tamil Nadu: Coonoor, Nilgiri Hills [ca. 11°22’N, 76°46’E; 1936 m a.s.l.], November 1904, M.M. Maindron leg. ( MNHN 17289 About MNHN ); not examined as the type was not available for the present study). GoogleMaps

Distribution. India (Tamil Nadu) ( Simon 1906) ( Fig. 27 View FIGURE 27 ).

Remarks. Interpreting the illustration of the male palp given in Simon (1906: fig. 2) and in Tikader and Sethi (1990: fig. 51), and considering the same size (PL 6.0 in T. maindroni , 5.9 in T. rufula ), the similar pattern on the dorsal opisthosoma and the close vicinity of both type localities, we strongly suspect this species could be a junior synonym of T. rufula , but its type material must be compared directly against the holotype of T. maindroni , which was not available for this study, neither was topotypic material available.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Sparassidae

Genus

Thelcticopis

Loc

Thelcticopis maindroni Simon, 1906

Sankaran, Pradeep M., Sherwood, Danniella & Jäger, Peter 2024
2024
Loc

Thelcticopis maindroni

Tikader, B. K. & Sethi, V. D. 1990: 184
Simon, E. 1906: 295
1906
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