Shearella sanya Lin & Li, 2010 comb. rev.

Shearella sanya Lin & Li, 2010: 23, figs. 19–28 (Description and illustration of male & female [Holotype male and paratypes male & female from CHINA: Hainan: Sanya City: Liudaohai Hill at seacoast; Li & C. X. Wang leg.; 15-07-2007; deposited in IZCAS). Tong, 2013: 80, figs. 94D–G & 96A–F (Description and illustration of male & female). Sinamma sanya: Lin & Li, 2014: 37 (transfer)

Justification of the transfer: This species was originally described in the genus Shearella (see Lin & Li 2010) within the subfamily Tetrablemminae . Lin & Li (2014) transferred it to the newly erected Chinese genus Sinamma Lin & Li, 2014 without providing proper justification for the transfer. According to Lin & Li (2014), the genus Sinamma is characterized by the presence of a pointed eye tubercle on the male prosoma, by a strongly modified male leg I and by an exceptionally narrow postgenital plate in male and female. Despite the conical eye tubercle on the male prosoma, a character shared by other genera such as Ablemma Roewer, 1963, Anansia Lehtinen, 1981, Gunasekara, and Shearella (see Lehtinen 1981), all other diagnostic features proposed for Sinamma are not present in this species: the male leg I is normal, without a modification, and the postgenital plate in both sexes is moderately wide (see Lin & Li 2010: figs 22 & 28). On the other hand, this species shares generic features of Shearella such as six eyes in a compact group placed anteriorly on the prosoma, male chelicerae with a conical, basally wide tooth, opisthosoma globular, palp with piriform bulb and simple embolus, and laterally narrow but centrally wide epigastric fold (see Lin & Li 2010: figs 19–20, 23–24, 26 & 28). Here we transfer this species back to Shearella .