Thyropygus poseidon Attems, 1936

Thyropygus poseidon— Krishnan, 1968: 8, 13 (D); Bano, 1983: 169 (M); Rangaswamy et al., 1983: 6 (M, R); Bai & Indra, 1997: 233 (R, D); Bai, 2001: 46, 51 (R). “South India (Madras, Madurai”; Nilgiris; South Arcot District. “ Thyropygus ” poseidon— Bano, 1998: 187 (M).

Remark: The Indian records and Krishnan’s (1968) redescription and assignment to Thyropygus, which again lacked male characters, are certainly erroneous because T. poseidon is endemic to Sri Lanka (Jeekel 2006: 50; De Zoysa et al. 2016).