Drassodes luridus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gnaphosoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Araneae Subordo: Opisthothelae Infraordo: Araneomorphae Taxon: Neocribellatae Series: Entelegynae Sectio: Dionycha Superfamilia: Gnaphosoidea

Familia: Gnaphosidae
Subfamilia: Drassodinae
Genus: Drassodes
Species: Drassodes luridus

Name

Drassodes luridus (Pickard-Cambridge, 1874)

Type locality: India

Holotype: OUM. female ♀. Bottle No. 254, Tube No. 138.

Synonyms

• Drassus luridus Pickard-Cambridge, 1874: 396 (original combination)
• Drassodes luridus (Pickard-Cambridge): Tikader, 1982: 409
• Scopodes maitraiae Tikader & Gajbe, 1977: 15 (synonymized by Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2019: 160)
  • Type locality: Kopargaon, Dist. Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India.
    • Holotype: NZC-ZSI. female ♀. 09-X.1973. legit M. Babu Rao.
• Megamyrmecion kajalae Biswas & Biswas, 1992: 430
  • Type locality: Palta, Santinagar, Dist. North 24-Parganas, West Bengal, India.
    • Holotype: ZSI. female ♀. 11.VIII.1987. legit Bijan Biswas. Redg. Nos. 5408-9/18.
• Scopoides samarae Gawande & Bodkhe, 2018: 225 (synonymized by Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2019: 160)
  • Type locality: Wari reserve forest, dist. Buldhana, Maharashtra, India (21°10’34"N 76°46’9"E.)
    • Holotype: SR-Lab. female ♀. VIII.2016. legit B.O. Gawande.

References

• Cambridge, O. P.-. 1874. On some new species of Drassides. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874: 370–419. [396, pl. 52, f. 21]

Additional references

• Biswas, B.K. & Biswas, K. 1992. Araneae: Spiders. State Fauna Series 3: Fauna of West Bengal 3: 357–500. Reference page. 
• Caleb, J.T.D., Karthikeyani, R. & Muthuchelian, K. 2014. Description of Drassodes luridus O. P. Cambridge (Araneae: Gnaphosidae): First record from Tamil Nadu, India. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies 2(4): 135-138. Reference page. 
• Gawande, B. & Bodkhe, A.. 2018. Description of spider genus Scopoides as a new species (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Wari Reserve Forest Area, Maharashtra, India. In: Rao, P. N., Saxena, A., Pandey, B. N. & Kulkarni, G. K. (eds.) Biodiversity and bioprospects: Indian scenario and perspectives. Today & Tomorrow's Printers and Publishers, New Delhi, pp. 223-228. Reference page. 
• Sankaran, P.M., Caleb, J.T.D. & Sebastian, P.A. 2019b. On the taxonomic validity of Indian ground spiders: I. Genus Scopoides Platnick, 1989 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Zootaxa 4648(1): 155–164. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4648.1.8. . Reference page. 
• Tikader, B. K. 1982. Family Gnaphosidae. Fauna India (Araneae) 2: 295–536. [409, f. 260-263]
• Tikader, B.K. & Gajbe, U.A. 1977. Studies on some spiders of the genera Scopodes Chamberlin, Megamyrmecion Reuss, Scotophaeus Simon and Liodrassus Chamberlin (family: Gnaphosidae) from India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 73: 13–22. Reference page. 
• Platnick, N. I. 2009. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History. [1]