Xizangiana pawani ( Gajbe, 1993 ) 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 : 465-466

Xizangiana pawani ( Gajbe, 1993) comb. n.

Sosticus pawani Gajbe, 1993: 181 , figs 1–5 (♀).

Urozelotes pawani Sankaran & Caleb, 2021: 551 , figs 52–55, 57–58 (♀, transfer from Sosticus ).

Type material. Holotype ♀, INDIA: Himachal Pradesh, Solan, Ragul Kalpa , 15 june 1970, leg. K.K. Mahajan, NZC-ZSI, Kolkata (no register number specified). Not examined.

Remarks. Gajbe (1993: 181, figs 1–5) and Sankaran & Caleb (2021: 551, figs 52–55, 57–58) 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 wide scape with a distal dent, atrium almost trapezoidal, transversal folds relatively many, posterior parts of the 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 indicate that Urozelotes pawani ( Gajbe, 1993) 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..