What is in a name? The birthright of Oxyopes nilgiricus Sherriffs, 1955 (Araneae: Oxyopidae)

Authors

  • John T.D. Caleb Zoological Survey of India, Prani Vigyan Bhawan, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal 700053, India. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9471-9467

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.4725.11.7.13947

Keywords:

Oxyopes, Checklist, India

Abstract

The species, Oxyopes nilgiricus Sherriffs, 1955 was overlooked and left out from the Indian checklists beginning from Tikader (1987), Siliwal, Molur & Biswas (2005), Sebastian & Peter (2009) to Keswani, Hadole & Rajoria (2012). It is astounding that a species bearing in its name, its origin, to have been missing from the lists for about 63 years.

References

Keswani, S., P. Hadole & A. Rajoria (2012). Checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from India. Indian Journal of Arachnology 1(1): 1–129.

Sebastian, P.A. & K.V. Peter (2009). Spiders of India, 1st Edition. Universities Press, Hyderabad, 614pp.

Sherriffs, W.R. (1955). More Oriental spiders of the genus Oxyopes. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 125: 297–308.

Siliwal, M., S. Molur & B.K. Biswas (2005). Indian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae): updated checklist 2005. Zoos’ Print Journal 20(10): 1999–2049. https://doi.org/10.11609/JoTT.ZPJ.1283.1999-2049

Tikader, B.K. (1987). Handbook of Indian Spiders. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, 251pp.

WSC (2018). World Spider Catalog, version 19.5. Natural History Museum Bern. Available online at https://wsc.nmbe.ch. Accessed on 30 October 2018.

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Published

26-05-2019

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 7 (2019)

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