Laminion arakuensis ( Patel & Reddy, 1989 ) Sankaran & Caleb & Sebastian, 2020

Sankaran, Pradeep M., Caleb, John T. D. & Sebastian, Pothalil A., 2020, A review of the Indian species formerly assigned to the genus Storena Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae: Zodariidae) with the description of a new genus, European Journal of Taxonomy 707, pp. 1-23 : 10-11

Laminion arakuensis ( Patel & Reddy, 1989) gen. et comb. nov.

Fig. 9

Storena arakuensis Patel & Reddy, 1989: 223 , fig. 1a–h.

Type material

Holotype (not examined)

INDIA • ♀; Andhra Pradesh, Visakhapatnam, Araku Valley ; 18°19′38.45″ N, 82°52′39.08″ E; 919 m a.s.l.; 28 Sep. 1985; T.S. Reddy leg.; NZC-ZSI, Kolkata (no register number specified). (The original illustrations of habitus and genitalia were used for comparison.)

Paratypes (not examined)

INDIA • 2 ♀♀; same collection data as for holotype; NZC-ZSI, Kolkata (no register number specified) .

Allotypes (not examined)

INDIA • 3 ♂♂; same collection data as for holotype; NZC-ZSI, Kolkata (no register number specified).

Male

Unknown.

Justification of the transfer

Patel & Reddy (1989) described this species on the basis of male and female specimens collected in Andhra Pradesh. Although we did not examine the types of this species, the female genitalia illustrated for this species clearly show the presence of sclerotised lateral and median epigynal plates ( Patel & Reddy 1989: fig. 1c), which allows the inclusion of this species in Laminion gen. nov.

Remarks

We were unable to trace out the types of S. arakuensis in the arachnid collection of ZSI, even though the authors mentioned that the types would be deposited here ( Patel & Reddy 1989).

Figures

Fig. 9. Currently known distributional records of Laminion gen. nov. Ǫ Laminion arakuensis (Patel & Reddy, 1989) gen. et comb. nov. ● Laminion birenifer (Gravely, 1921) gen. et comb. nov. ♦ Laminion debasrae (Biswas & Biswas, 1992) gen. et comb. nov. ■ Laminion gujaratensis (Tikader & Patel, 1975) gen. et comb. nov.