Nasoonaria magna Tanasevitch, 2014

Andrei V. Tanasevitch, 2016, A case of disjunct montane linyphiid species (Araneae) in the Palaeotropics, with notes on synonymy and the description of a new species, Revue suisse de Zoologie 123 (2), pp. 235-240 : 239

Nasoonaria magna Tanasevitch, 2014

Nasoonaria magna Tanasevitch, 2014: 406 , figs 52-57.

Nasoonaria circinata Zhao & Li, 2014: 32 , figs 58-61, syn. nov.

Remarks: Nasoonaria circinata Zhao & Li, 2014 , was described from specimens of both sexes from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, People’s Republic of China, the territory bordering Myanmar and Laos ( Zhao & Li, 2014). Nasoonaria magna is based on a male from the Khao Yai National Park, Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand ( Tanasevitch, 2014). A comparison of the N. magna holotype with splendid figures and photos of N. circinata , published by Zhao & Li (2014: figs 58-61), does not leave any doubt that these two names refer to the same species. In addition, I subsequently found in the MHNG a Nasoonaria female from the type locality of N. magna . Judging from the drawings and photos of Zhao & Li (2014: figs 60A-C), this is a female of N. magna .

The description of N. magna was published on 2.XII. 2014 in the journal “Arthropoda Selecta”, volume 23, number 4, and on the same day a pdf of the paper was placed on the Internet for free access (see http://arthropodaselecta.britishspiders.org.uk/index. php?idxtype=vol&idxvalue=23). The description of N. circinata was published two days later, on 4.XII. 2014 in ZooKeys, number 460 (see http://zookeys.pensoft. net/articles.php?id=4296), thus the name N. magna has priority over N. circinata .