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Issue: Vol. 4648 No. 1: 29 Jul. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-07-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4648.1.8
Page range: 155–164
Abstract views: 72
PDF downloaded: 2

On the taxonomic validity of Indian ground spiders: I. Genus Scopoides Platnick, 1989 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae)

Division of Arachnology, Department of Zoology, Sacred Heart College, Thevara, Cochin, Kerala 682 013, India.
Centre for DNA Taxonomy, Zoological Survey of India, Prani Vigyan Bhawan, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal 700 053, India.
Centre for DNA Taxonomy, Zoological Survey of India, Prani Vigyan Bhawan, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal 700 053, India.
Division of Arachnology, Department of Zoology, Sacred Heart College, Thevara, Cochin, Kerala 682 013, India.
Araneae Scopodes synonymy transfer type specimen Zoological Survey of India

Abstract

Indian Scopoides species have been revised. Three new combinations are proposed: Poecilochroa kuljitae (Tikader, 1982) comb. nov., Megamyrmaekion pritiae (Tikader, 1982) comb. nov. and Megamyrmaekion tikaderi (Gajbe, 1987) comb. nov.. Scopoides maitraiae (Tikader & Gajbe, 1977) and Scopoides samarae Gawande & Bodkhe, 2018 are synonymized with Drassodes luridus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874). All the examined type materials are imaged and supplementary descriptions for P. kuljitae comb. nov., M. pritiae comb. nov. and M. tikaderi comb. nov. are provided.

 

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