Sphingius barkudensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Corinnoidea

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: Corinnoidea

Familia: Liocranidae
Subfamilia: Oedignathinae
Genus: Sphingius
Species: Sphingius barkudensis

Name

Sphingius barkudensis Gravely, 1931

Type locality: India, Barkuda Island, Chilika Lake, Bangalore.

Holotype: MGM. female ♀.

Synonymy

• Sosticus sundargarhensis Gajbe, 1979: 72 (synonymized by Sankaran & Caleb, 2021: 554)
  • Type locality: India, Odisha (=Orissa): Sundergarh: Bonaigarh (21°48’36’’N, 84°57’23’’E), 154 m alt.
    • Holotype: NZC-ZSI. female ♀. 15.VI.1972. legit D.P. Sanyal. 4320/18.
• Sosticus jabalpurensis Bhandari & Gajbe, 2001: 89 (synonymized by Sankaran & Caleb, 2021: 554)
  • Type locality: India, Madhya Pradesh: Jabalpur: Tilwara Ghat (23°06’23’’N, 79°52’44’’E), 383 m alt.
    • Holotype: NZC-ZSI. female ♀. 22.VIII.1998. legit Pawan Gajbe. 5519/18

References

Primary references

• Gravely, F.H. 1931. Some Indian spiders of the families Ctenidae, Sparassidae, Selenopidae and Clubionidae. Records of the Indian Museum 33: 211–282. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Bhandari, R. & Gajbe, P.U. 2001. Description of four new species of spiders of the families Uloboridae, Philodromidae, Gnaphosidae and Lycosidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Madhya Pradesh, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 99: 87–93. Reference page. 
• Gajbe, U.A. 1979. Studies on some spiders of the genus Sosticus from India (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Bulletin of the Zoological Survey of India 2: 69-74. Reference page. 
• Sankaran, P.M. & Caleb, J.T.D. 2021. On the taxonomic validity of Indian ground spiders: V. Genera Megamyrmaekion Reuss, 1834, Sosticus Chamberlin, 1922 and Gaviphosa gen. nov. (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Zootaxa 5040(4): 539–564. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5040.4.5. . Reference page.