Nepalicius Prószyński, 2016,

Prószyński, Jerzy, 2016, Delimitation and description of 19 new genera, a subgenus and a species of Salticidae (Araneae) of the world, Ecologica Montenegrina 7, pp. 4-32 : 21-22

Gen. Nepalicius Prószyński, 2016 , gen. n.

Figures 7A–D

Type species. Icius nepalicus Andreeva, Heciak & Prószyński, 1984 .

Documentation studied. Comparative diagnostic drawings of 3 species in Prószyński (2016a) and original literature, especially Prószyński (1992a: 106, Figs. 67, 69-72).

Etymology. Name combines words Nepal and Icius , grammar gender assumed masculine.

Diagnosis. Share mutual diagnostic characters of PSEUDICIINES: lateral, subocular row of about 10 short bristles on protuberances, modified tibia of robust leg I, flattened body and characteristic color pattern.

Males differ from other genera by bulbus rounded, encircled by embolus, entirely or partially, dorsal ramus of tibial apophysis reduced to semicircular protuberance ( Figs. 7A – C ).

Female. Epigyne with a pair of grooves and openings in the posterior part, pockets not discovered. Ducts and spermathecae differ from remaining PSEUDICIINES genera by their arrangement parallel to the main axis of the body, not transverse. Copulatory openings small, located near the posterior edge of epigyne, ducts, slightly bent s-shaped, runs anteriorwards, along almost the whole length of epigyne. Thickness of ducts' wall equal to that of spermathecae. Spermathecae originate just anteriorly to scent openings, semicircularly bent and ending at the level of mid-length of epigyne, their internal surface with a network of delicate, vein-like thickenings ( Fig. 7D ).

More diagnostic documentation - see at: http://www.peckhamia.com/salticidae/q27- Nepal.html.

Remarks. Suguro and Yahata (2014: 63 (2): 87-97, f 25, 27, 28) match female purporting to be Nepalicius coreanu s with male Tasa nipponica ( Fig. 7O ) as a new combination Tasa coreanica , supposedly based on gene sequencing, but providing no taxonomically or biologically relevant data. Matching male and female of Pseudicius koreanus in Bohdanowicz & Prószynski (1987: 67-71, Figs 67-68, 73) was done by Takeo Yaginuma, who has collected both sexes in Japan: Kochi Pref. 28. VI. 1964, and send me for identification and taxonomic study as a couple of the same species. The detailed drawing of spermathecae of the Japanese female was made to check and confirm original drawings of partly damaged holotype of that species, from North Korea, by Wesołowska (1981, Figs. 54-55), made in my laboratory. Matching these spiders was also accepted by Ono, Ikeda, Kono (2009: 570, Figs. 104-106). In the light of the above documentation I declare merging genera Pseudicius and Tasa invalid and false, and the combination of Tasa koreanica also invalid.

Distribution. Nepal, India, Korea, Japan, Seychelles Is.

Composition. The following species are transferred from the genus Pseudicius Simon, 1885 : Nepalicius koreanus ( Wesolowska, 1981) , comb. n., N. nepalicus ( Andreeva, Heciak, Prószynski, 1984) comb. n., N. seychellensis (Wanless,1983) comb. n.

Figures

Figure 7. Diagnostic characters of new genera: A – B – Nepalicius nepalicus – modified leg I and male palp; C – D – N. koreanus male palp and spermatheca with sclerotized duct; E, I – Okinawicius okinawensis, epigyne and spermathecae with membranous ducts; F, H – O. tokaraensis, epigyne and spermathecae with membranous ducts; G – “Pseudicius tokaraensis” misinterpreted synonym of combined O. okinawensis and O. tokaraensis; J – K – O. sheherezadae and its possible match O. sindbadi – female spermathecae with membranous ducts and male palp. Correction of synonyms of “Helicius kimjoopili”, comparison of epigyne and its internal structures. L – P: true representative of Helicius: H. yaginumai; (L); representative of Nandicius – N. frigidus (M); misinterpreted and “nomen nudum” “Helicius kimjoopili-1” (N); misinterpreted and “nomen nudum” “Helicius kimjoopili-2” (O); misinterpreted and “nomen nudum” Pseudicius kimjoopili: (P). Sources: A, B, E, I - Prószyński ©Annales zoologici 1992a: 44, 8: 106, Figs 69; 71-72; 108, Figs 98 – 99; C, D, F, H, O – A. Bohdanowicz & Prószyński ©Annales zoologici, 1987: 67, Figs 67-68, 73; 71, Figs 67-68, 143, 301; G, P – Suguro T. & Yahata S. 2014: © Acta Arachnologica, 63(2): 87-97, Figs 8 – 9 + 22 – 24; J, K– J. Prószyński, ©Fauna Saudi Arabia 10: 49, Figs 46-47; L – J. Prószyński 1971 (drawings unnumbered); M – Prószyński & Żochowska (1981) ©Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne, 51: 25-26, Figs 16-18; N – Kim Joopil, Korean Arachnology 11(2): 2, Figs 4-5; O – Kim Joopil, Korean Arachnology 11(2)–“bis”: 2, Figs 4-5. By courtesy.