Palpimanus, Dufour, 1820

Tripathi, Rishikesh, Sankaran, Pradeep M., Kuni, Nikhil & Sudhikumar, Ambalaparambil V., 2023, New species of Palpimanus Dufour, 1820 from India (Araneae: Palpimanidae, Palpimaninae), with a catalogue of the Indian palpimanid fauna, European Journal of Taxonomy 891, pp. 26-50 : 46

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2023.891.2265

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C0AD31F0-5059-4E24-9CAE-C7EC6827228A

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8336218

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039B87A7-FFD4-8811-FF40-FEA8C73BFAD8

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Felipe

scientific name

Palpimanus
status

 

Key to Indian species of Palpimanus View in CoL View at ENA

Male of P. vultuosus is excluded from the key as it is unknown and the detail of its female was taken from Simon (1897). Details of P. narsinhmehtai were taken from Prajapati et al. (2021).

1. Males.................................................................................................................................................. 2

– Females .............................................................................................................................................. 4

2. Dorsal arm of embolic stalk (DAE) with short distomedian process, median arm of embolic stalk (MAE) tongue-shaped ( Fig. 6B View Fig ).......................................................................... P. godawan sp. nov.

– Dorsal arm of embolic stalk (DAE) with long distomedian process, median arm of embolic stalk (MAE) cone-shaped ( Figs 11B View Fig , 12C View Fig ; Prajapati et al. 2021: fig. 17) ................................................. 3

3. Prolateral arm of embolic stalk (PAE) with lateral folding, median arm of embolic stalk (MAE) short ( Fig. 11B View Fig ).............................................................................................................. P. maldhok sp. nov.

– Prolateral arm of embolic stalk (PAE) lacks lateral folding, median arm of embolic stalk (MAE) large ( Fig. 12A, C View Fig ; Prajapati et al. 2021: fig. 18)................. P. narsinhmehtai Prajapati, Hun & Raval, 2021 View in CoL

4. Sternum covered with long whitish setae ( Simon 1897) ............................ P. vultuosus Simon, 1897 View in CoL

– Sternum lacks covering of long whitish setae ( Figs 3H View Fig , 8H View Fig )............................................................ 5

5. Receptacles (RE) sac-like, posterior part of receptacles (PRE) flat and strongly twisted ( Fig. 6E View Fig ).... ............................................................................................................................. P. godawan sp. nov.

– Receptacles (RE) balloon-shaped or reniform, posterior part of receptacles (PRE) cylindrical and weakly twisted ( Fig. 11E View Fig ; Prajapati et al. 2021: fig. 20) ................................................................... 6

6. Receptacles (RE) balloon-shaped, accessory glands (AG) originate distolaterally to posterior part of receptacles (PRE) ( Figs 10F View Fig , 11E View Fig )........................................................................ P. maldhok sp. nov.

– Receptacles (RE) reniform, accessory glands (AG) originate medially to posterior part of receptacles (PRE) ( Prajapati et al. 2021: fig. 20) ....................................................................... P. narsinhmehtai View in CoL

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Palpimanidae

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