Castianeira zetes Simon, 1897

Castaneira zetes Simon, 1897c: 294 (♀) (lapsus); Gravely, 1931: 273, fig. 20A–B (♂ ♀).

Castianeira zetes Tikader & Biswas, 1981: 73, figs 129–130 (♀); Tikader, 1981: 258, figs 1–4 (♂ ♀); Majumder & Tikader, 1991: 132, figs 264–269 (♂ ♀); Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2000: 132, figs 1–7 (♂ ♀); Rao et al., 2015: 24 (♀); Sen et al., 2015: 72, plate XVIII, figs 399–403 (♀); Dhali et al., 2017: 55, plate XX, figs 214–218 (♀); Sankaran et al., 2018: 497, figs 1A–G, 2A–E (♂ ♀).

Type locality. Karachi, Pakistan (Simon 1897c; Sankaran et al. 2018).

Type repository. MNHN (Sankaran et al. 2018) .

Records from India. Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Karnataka, Kerala, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal (Gravely 1931; Majumder & Tikader 1991; Rao et al., 2015; Sen et al. 2015; Dhali et al. 2017; Sankaran et al. 2018).

Distribution. Bangladesh, India, Pakistan (World Spider Catalog 2021).

Remarks. Gravely (1931) recorded this species for the first time from India. This species was redescribed and well-illustrated by Sankaran et al. (2018), based on type and non-type material. The distribution of this species in Bhutan and Maharashtra (Tikader 1981) is wrong, and is due to the misinterpretation of Simon (1897c) and Gravely (1931).