Xizangiana sedula (Simon, 1897) Liu & Wang & Zhang, 2023

Liu, Bo, Wang, Luyu & Zhang, Feng, 2023, Revision of the genus Xizangiana Sherwood, Li & Zhang, 2022, with descriptions of five new species (Araneae: Gnaphosidae), Zootaxa 5346 (4), pp. 443-468 : 465

Xizangiana sedula (Simon, 1897) comb. n.

Callilepis sedula Simon, 1897: 255 (♀; spelling per p. 252, C. seduba in heading).

Poecilochroa sedula Dalmas, 1921: 326 (transfer from Callilepis ).

Poecilochroa sedula Tikader, 1982: 453 , figs 359–362 (♀).

Type material. Holotype ♀, INDIA: Dehra Dun. Not examined.

Remarks. Tikader (1982: 453, figs 359–362) showed the same characteristics of Xizangiana for this species, such as abdomen with two white markings anterolaterally, two white markings medially, several chevron-like white stripes posteriorly, and two longitudinal black stripes ventrally. Epigyne has a scape with a distal dent, atrium almost trapezoidal, lateral folds chevron-like, secondary spermathecae small, and primary spermathecae globular-shaped, large. Moreover, the type locality of this species is in Himalaya, same as all known Xizangiana species except X. xiangbi sp. n. ( Fig. 23 ). All these suggest that Poecilochroa sedula (Simon, 1897) should belong to Xizangiana .

Distribution. India ( Fig. 23 ).

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FIGURE 23. Records of Xizangiana species: 1 X. pawani comb. n.; 2 X. sedula comb. n.; 3 X. shenxian sp. n.; 4 X. rigaze; 5 X. benae sp. n.; 6 X. longlin sp. n.; 7 X. linzhiensis; 8 X. namchabarwa sp. n.. 9 X. xiangbi sp. n..