Suffasia

Sudhikumar, Ambalaparambil V., Jocqué, Rudy & Sebastian, Pothalil A., 2009, A new species of the ant spider genus Suffasia (Araneae: Zodariidae) from the Western Ghats, India with a key to the species of the genus, Zootaxa 2203, pp. 59-64 : 63

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.189677

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6218086

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AE5058-7160-3541-FF5D-D079F7C74103

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scientific name

Suffasia
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Key to the described species of the genus Suffasia View in CoL View at ENA

The following key will separate all 7 described species of female Suffasia spiders and all 6 described species of male Suffasia spiders based on the structural details of the genital organs.

1a. Males............................................................................................................................................................................. 2

1b. Females ......................................................................................................................................................................... 7

2a. Palpal tibia broad .......................................................................................................................................................... 3

2b. Palpal tibia not broad .................................................................................................................................................... 4

3a. Wide tibia with a large retrolateral spine .............................................................................................. S. kanchenjunga View in CoL

3b. Tibia longer than wide, without such spine .................................................................................................. S. martensi View in CoL

4a. Cymbium with lateral pits (e.g. Fig. 10 View FIGURES 1 – 10 )....................................................................................................................... 5

4b. Cymbium without lateral pits ....................................................................................................................................... 6

5a. Cymbium with 3 pits, embolus strongly curved ......................................................................... S. keralaensis View in CoL sp. nov.

5b. Cymbium with only one pit, embolus strongly tapering .......................................................................... S. tumegaster View in CoL

6a. Tibia with strongly tapering retrolateral apophysis, cymbial flange attached at its base to the cymbium, shorter broad tegular apophysis ................................................................................................................................... S. mahasumana View in CoL

6b. Tibia with stout retrolateral apophysis, cymbial flange attached at its center to the cymbium, long tapering tegular apophysis ........................................................................................................................................................ S. attidiya View in CoL

7a. Epigyne with scape ....................................................................................................................................................... 8

7b. Epigyne without scape (e.g. Fig. 7 View FIGURES 1 – 10 ) .............................................................................................................................. 9

8a. Epigynal scape thick, copulatory opening near the centre of the epigyne.................................................... S. martensi View in CoL

8b. Epigynal scape thin; copulatory opening in the frontal part of the epigyne ......................................... S. kanchenjunga View in CoL

9a. Epigyne with a rectangular plate ........................................................................................................... S. mahasumana View in CoL

9b. Epigyne without such plate (e.g. Fig. 7 View FIGURES 1 – 10 ) ..................................................................................................................... 10

10a. Epigyne with a central anchoring hole ........................................................................................................... S. tigrina View in CoL

10b. Epigyne without an anchoring hole............................................................................................................................ 11

11a. Spermathecae oval (e.g. Fig. 8 View FIGURES 1 – 10 ) .................................................................................................. S. keralaensis View in CoL sp. nov

11b. Spermathecae spherical .............................................................................................................................................. 12

12a. Thick walled copulatory ducts first run outward and then inwards .............................................................. S. attidiya View in CoL

12b. Thin walled copulatory ducts first run inward and then outwards.......................................................... S. tumegaster View in CoL

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Zodariidae

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