Belisana ratnapura Huber, 2005

Figs 8–9, 34–35, 40–41

Belisana ratnapura Huber, 2005: 108, figs 602–616 (♂ ♀, Sri Lanka).

Notes. The unidentified locality “Kollawa” in Huber (2005) is a misspelling of Kottawa (see additional material from same collecting event below). The correct coordinates for “Kannaliya” (Kanneliya) are 6.25°N, 80.34°E (not 6°02’N, 80°13’E as in Huber 2005).

Diagnosis. Easily distinguished from most congeners by long retrolateral process (‘flap’) of procursus pointing in proximal-ventral direction and curved at tip (Figs 34–-35); from very similar B. gowindahela by wider procursus with different shape of prolateral distal sclerite (compare Figs 32–35), by smaller distance between distal male cheliceral apophyses (15 µm versus ~80 µm in B. gowindahela; compare fig. 604 in Huber 2005 with Fig. 31 herein), and by epigynum with posterior extension and with pockets closer together (10–15 µm versus ~60 µm in B. gowindahela; compare Figs 38–41).

New records. SRI LANKA: 6♂ 9♀, ZFMK (Ar 20015), Sabaragamuwa Province, between Ratnapura and Mapalena Ella (6.762°N, 80.428°E), 100 m a.s.l., 19.iii.2017 (B.A. Huber) . 1♂ 1♀, NMSL, 12♂ 11♀ 2 juvs, ZFMK (Ar 20016), and 2♂ 1♀ in pure ethanol, ZFMK (SL163), Sabaragamuwa Province, Mapalena Ella (6.774°N, 80.460°E), 270 m a.s.l., forest below waterfall, 19.iii.2017 (B.A. Huber) . ~ 19♂ 20♀, ZFMK (Ar 5195– 96), Sabaragamuwa Province, Ratnapura District, Gilimale Forest Reserve [~ 6.76°N, 80.45°E], 11.ii.2007 (S.P. Benjamin, Z. Jaleel) . 2♂ 5♀, ZFMK (Ar 20017), and 2♂ 1♀ in pure ethanol, ZFMK (SL104), Sabaragamuwa Province, near Kitulgala (6.985°N, 80.430°E), 170 m a.s.l., 7.iii.2017 (B.A. Huber) . 5♂ 4♀, ZFMK (Ar 5192), Sabaragamuwa Province, Kegalle District, Kitulgala, degraded lowland rainforest, 14.ii.2007 (Z. Jaleel) . 3♂ 1♀, ZFMK (Ar 20018), and 1♀ in pure ethanol, ZFMK (SL101), Sabaragamuwa Province, outside of Belilena Cave near Kitulgala (7.003°N, 80.436°E), 370 m a.s.l., 7.iii.2017 (B.A. Huber) . 5♂ 3♀, ZFMK (Ar 20019), and 2♂ 3♀ in pure ethanol, ZFMK (SL99), Western Province, Mitirigala Forest (6.997°N, 80.175°E), 70 m a.s.l., 6.iii.2017 (B.A. Huber) . 3♂ 6♀ 3 juvs, ZFMK (Ar 20020), and 1♂ 1♀ in pure ethanol, ZFMK (SL169), Western Province, Labugama Forest (6.846°N, 80.175°E), 150 m a.s.l., 20.iii.2017 (B.A. Huber) . 2♂ 3♀, ZFMK (Ar 5193), Western Province, Kalutara District, Ingiriya, Bodhinagala Forest Reserve [6.725°N, 80.155°E], 10.ii.2007 (S.P. Benjamin, Z. Jaleel) . 3♂, ZFMK (Ar 20021), Western Province, above Pelawatta-Tinniyawala road (6.404°N, 80.283°E), 150 m a.s.l., 18.iii.2017 (B.A. Huber) . 5♂ 3♀, ZFMK (Ar 20022), and 2♀ in pure ethanol, ZFMK (SL160), Southern Province, Kottawa Forest (6.097°N, 80.308°E), 60 m a.s.l., 17.iii.2017 (B.A. Huber) . 2♂ 4♀, RMNH, Kottawa, wet evergreen forest, 15.x.1982 (F. Wanless) . 3♀ in pure ethanol, ZFMK (Benj 39), Southern Province, Galle District, Kottawa, Kombala-Kottawa Forest Reserve (6.098°N, 80.314°E), 60 m a.s.l., 19.v.2010 (S.P. Benjamin, S. Batuwita) . 3♂ 9♀, ZFMK (Ar 20023), and 1♂ 1♀ 1 juv. in pure ethanol, ZFMK (SL157), Southern Province, Viharekele Forest (6.099°N, 80.594°E), 120 m a.s.l., 17.iii.2017 (B.A. Huber) .

Natural history. The webs of this species were identical to those of B. gowindahela (see above).

Distribution. Widely distributed in southwestern Sri Lanka, apparently excluding high elevation areas (Fig. 221).