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Issue: Vol. 5686 No. 3: 28 Aug. 2025
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2025-08-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5686.3.8
Page range: 447-450
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On the identity of Plator indicus Simon, 1897, and a catalogue of Indian trochanteriid fauna (Araneae: Trochanteriidae)

Division of Arachnology; Department of Zoology; Sacred Heart College; Thevara; Cochin; Kerala 682 013; India.
Forest Entomology Discipline; Forest Protection Division; Forest Research Institute; Dehradun; Uttarakhand 248 006; India.
Centre for Animal Taxonomy and Ecology; Department of Zoology; Christ College; Irinjalakuda; Thrissur; Kerala 680 125; India.
Araneae Trochanteriidae Plator indicus

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How to Cite

Sankaran, P.M., Tripathy, A. & Tripathi, R. (2025) On the identity of Plator indicus Simon, 1897, and a catalogue of Indian trochanteriid fauna (Araneae: Trochanteriidae). Zootaxa, 5686 (3), 447–450. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5686.3.8