Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 July 2024 | 16(7): 25630–25631

 

ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) | ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) 

https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.9225.16.7.25630-25631

#9225 | Received 19 June 2024 | Final received 27 June 2024 | Finally accepted 01 July 2024

 

 

First record of Proszynskia diatreta (Simon, 1902) (Araneae: Salticidae) from Gujarat, India

 

Manisha P. Patel 1  & Dhruv A. Prajapati 2

 

1 Department of Zoology, Navyug Science College, Rander Road, Surat, Gujarat 395009, India.

2 Web of Nature (WON) Research Foundation, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380058, India.

1 dr.manishappatel@gmail.com, 2 dhruvspidy215@gmail.com (corresponding author)

 

 

Editor:  John T.D. Caleb, SIMATS, Saveetha University, Chennai, India.        Date of publication: 26 July 2024 (online & print)

 

Citation: Patel, M.P. & D.A. Prajapati (2024). First record of Proszynskia diatreta (Simon, 1902) (Araneae: Salticidae) from Gujarat, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 16(7): 25630–25631. https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.9225.16.7.25630-25631

  

Copyright: © Patel & Prajapati 2024. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.  JoTT allows unrestricted use, reproduction, and distribution of this article in any medium by providing adequate credit to the author(s) and the source of publication.

 

Funding: Crowd funding.

 

Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.

 

Acknowledgements: We are thankful to Mrs Priyal Patel (WON Research Foundation, Ahmedabad) for her generous help in preparation of images.

 

 

 

The genus Proszynskia Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019 was established with Proszynskia diatreta (Simon, 1902) as its type species (Kanesharatnam & Benjamin 2019; World Spider Catalog 2024). P. diatreta is presently known from India and Sri Lanka (Kanesharatnam & Benjamin 2019). In India, the species has been documented only from two localities in Tamil Nadu (Caleb 2016). In this study, we report the discovery of P. diatreta in Gujarat, making it the northernmost distributional record of this species.

The specimen was hand-collected and studied under a Leica M205 A stereomicroscope and microphotographic images were taken by a Leica DFC2900 digital camera attached to the stereomicroscope and enabled with the software package Leica Application Suite (LAS), version 4.5.0. Left palp was studied and photographed by placing in a cavity block filled with ethanol. The species was identified based on Kanesharatnam & Benjamin (2019). The examined specimen has been deposited in the reference collection of the Web of Nature (WON) Research Foundation, Gujarat, India (curator: Dhruv A. Prajapati).

 

Family Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Genus Proszynskia Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019

Type species: Viciria diatreta Simon, 1902

 

Proszynskia diatreta (Simon, 1902) (Images 1–3)

Viciria diatreta Simon, 1902: 366

Viciria diatreta Prószyński, 1984: 433, figs 42–43

Viciria diatreta Caleb & Mathai, 2014: 65, figs 38–46

Phintella diatreta Caleb, 2016: 274

Proszynskia diatreta Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019: 54, figs 23E-H, 24A-E, 25A-E, 26A-D

Material examined: WON102495A, 3.viii.2016, 1 male, India, Gujarat, Ahwa village in Dang district (20.7488 °N, 73.6916 °E), 461 m, leg. D. Prajapati.

Diagnosis: The species can be easily identified by the short, straight and robust embolus directed at 12 o’clock position ventrally (Image 2); tegulum with significant prolateral proximal lobe (Image 2); retrolateral tibial apophysis bent at the tip and directed at 10 o’clock position (Image 3).

Distribution: India and Sri Lanka (Simon 1902; Kanesharatnam & Benjamin 2019) (Figure 1).

Distribution in India: Tamil Nadu (Simon 1902) and Gujarat.

 

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References

 

Caleb, J.T.D. (2016). New data on the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from India. Arthropoda Selecta 25(3): 271–277. https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.25.3.06

Kanesharatnam, N. & S.P. Benjamin (2019). Multilocus genetic and morphological phylogenetic analysis reveals a radiation of shiny South Asian jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae). ZooKeys 839: 1–81. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.839.28312

Prószyński, J. (1984). Remarks on Viciria and Telamonia (Araneae, Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 37: 417–436.

Simon, E. (1902). Description d’ arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Salticidae (Attidae) (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 46: 24–56, 363–406.

World Spider Catalog (2024). World Spider Catalog. Version 25. Natural History Museum Bern. http://wsc.nmbe.ch. Accessed on 31 March 2024. https://doi.org/10.24436/2