Meotipa picturata Simon, 1895

Kulkarni, Siddharth, Vartak, Atul, Deshpande, Vishwas & Halali, Dheeraj, 2017, The spiny theridiid genus Meotipa Simon, 1895 in India, with description of a strange new species with translucent abdomen and a phylogenetic analysis about the genus placement (Araneae, Theridiidae), Zootaxa 4291 (3), pp. 504-520 : 515

Meotipa picturata Simon, 1895

( Figs 39–44 )

Meotipa picturata Simon, 1895: 133 (Df) .

Meotipa picturata Levi & Levi, 1962: 47 , f. 112–113 (f). Meotipa picturata Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009: 410 , f. 1–3 (f).

Diagnosis. as in Deeleman-Reinhold (2009).

Type material. (not eXamined) Female, MNHN AR 2009 Kodei Kanel , Tamil Nadu, India.

Material examined. 3 females ( BNHS Sp. 355), Collem (15.339 N, 74.240 E), South Goa District , Goa, India, Dhiraj Halali.

Description. Female

Measurements. Total length— 3.84 mm, Carapace length—1.65, width— 1.1 mm, height— 0.87 mm. Abdomen length— 2.14 mm, height— 3.39 mm, Leg I—5.2/0.71/3.27/5.15/0.89, Leg II—3.44/0.46/1.86/2.97/0.68, Leg III— 2.1/0.38/1.2/1.77/0.67, Leg IV—4.76/0.75/3.09/3.03/1.37.

Carapace pale yellow. Eyes arrangement and coloration similar to M.sahyadri n. sp. ( Fig.39 ). Black FS on patella to tibia, abdominal base and apeX ( Fig.40 ). Abdomen triangular, shorter than M.sahyadri n. sp., surface covered with brown and silver guanine spots ( Figs. 39, 40 ); ventrally without any colour pattern ( Fig. 41 ). Epigynum small, CD longer than spermatheca diameter ( Fig.42 ). Epigynal projection quandrangular, emerging perpendicularly outwards from inner side of upper margin of atrium ( Fig. 43 ). CO situated underside of epigynal projection ( Fig.44 ).

Distribution. Known from India, Indonesia, Laos and Thailand ( Fig. 45 ).

Figures

FIGURE 45. Distribution of specimen records of Meotipa sahyadri n. sp. and Meotipa picturata.

FIGURES 39 – 44. Meotipa picturata, female. 39 habitus dorsal vieW 40 habitus, lateral vieW 41 habitus, ventral vieW 42 epigynum, dorsal vieW 43 epigynum, ventral vieW 44 copulatory openings at base of atrium. Scale lines: 1 mm (Figs. 39 – 41); 0.1 mm (Fig. 42).