First record of Prosoponoides Millidge & Russell-Smith, 1992 (Araneae: Linyphiidae) from India, with the description of a new species

Authors

  • Anusmitha Domichan Department of Zoology, Sacred Heart College, Thevara, Kochi, Kerala 682013, India. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5829-0918
  • K. Sunil Jose Department of Zoology, Deva Matha College, Kuravilangad, Kottayam, Kerala 686633, India.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.6913.14.2.20625-20630

Keywords:

Distribution, Kerala, Idukki, taxonomy, Western Ghats

Abstract

The genus, Prosoponoides (Millidge & Russell-Smith , 1992)is recorded for the first time from India. A new species namely Prosoponoides idukkiensis sp.nov. is reported from Western Ghats, India.P. idukkiensis sp.nov. differs from other species in the arrangement  of spermatheca. Descriptions, photos and distributional maps of the new species are also provided.

References

Blackwall, J. (1859). Descriptions of newly discovered spiders captured by James Yate Johnson Esq., in the island of Madeira. Annals and Magazine of Natural History Series 3(4): 255–267.

Chen, Y.F. (1991). Two new species and two new records of linyphiid spiders from China. (Arneae [sic]: Linyphiidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 16: 163–168.

Li, J.Y., J. Liu & J. Chen (2018). A review of some Neriene spiders (Araneae: Linyphiidae) from China. Zootaxa 4513(1): 1–90.

Liu J, Q. Chen, Y. Zhong & J. Chen (2020). The spider genus Prosoponoides (Araneae: Linyphiidae) in China. Zootaxa 4786(1): 023–036.

Millidge, A.F. & A. Russell-Smith (1992). Linyphiidae from rain forests of Southeast Asia. Journal of Natural History 26(6): 1367–1404. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939200770771

Sharma, A., A. Singh & R. Singh (2020). Faunal Diversity of Linyphiidae (Araneomorphae: Araneae: Arachnida) in India. Asian Journal of Conservation Biology 9(2): 304–314.

Tanasevitch, A.V. (2017). New genera and new species of the family Linyphiidae from Borneo, Sumatra and Java (Arachnida, Araneae). Revue suisse de Zoologie 124(1): 141–155.

World Spider Catalog. (2022). World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern, online at: http://wsc.nmbe.ch, Version 22.5. Accessed 10 January 2022.

Downloads

Published

26-02-2022 — Updated on 26-02-2022

Versions

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 2 (2022)

Section

Short Communications

License

Copyright (c) 2022 Anusmitha Domichan, K. Sunil Jose

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Authors own the copyright to the articles published in JoTT.  This is indicated explicitly in each publication. The authors grant permission to the publisher Wildlife Information Liaison Development (WILD) Society to publish the article in the Journal of Threatened Taxa. The authors recognize WILD as the original publisher, and to sell hard copies of the Journal and article to any buyer. JoTT is registered under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY), which allows authors to retain copyright ownership.  Under this license the authors allow anyone to download, cite, use the data, modify, reprint, copy and distribute provided the authors and source of publication are credited through appropriate citations (e.g., Son et al. (2016). Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of the southeastern Truong Son Mountains, Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam. Journal of Threatened Taxa 8(7): 8953–8969. https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.2785.8.7.8953-8969). Users of the data do not require specific permission from the authors or the publisher.