Dendrolycosa gitae ( Tikader, 1970 ), 2023

Sudhin, Puthoor Pattammal, Sen, Souvik & Jäger, Peter, 2023, Taxonomic notes on the nursery-web spider genus Dendrolycosa Doleschall, 1859 (Araneae: Pisauridae) from India, with the description of a new species, Zootaxa 5353 (1), pp. 67-74 : 72-73

Dendrolycosa gitae ( Tikader, 1970)

Figs 4–5

Pisaura gitae Tikader 1970: 59 , figs 34a–b (description and illustration of female).

Dendrolycosa gitae: Jäger 2011: 13 , fig. 41 (transfer of female from Pisaura ). Sen et al. 2015: 91, figs 524–528 (description and illustration of female). Dhali et al. 2017: 86, figs 469–474 (description and illustration of male).

Type material. Subadult holotype ♀ from INDIA: West Bengal: Darjeeling , 19 October 1959, B.K. Tikader (NZC-ZSI, Kolkata, Regd. No. 3258/18), examined. Paratype: 4 subadult ♀♀ from INDIA: West Sikkim: Naya bazar, 23 September 1959, B.K. Tikader (Regd. No. 3259/18), examined .

Description. See Tikader, 1970.

Notes. Tikader (1970) described this species based on female specimens collected from Darjeeling, West Bengal. The ZSI collection has two jars with this species. One contains the holotype, and the other contains four paratype specimens, all in good condition but all five subadult females ( Figs 4A–C ). Detailed examinations of all the available specimens revealed that no characters of the copulatory organs can be identified. Therefore, its validity needs to be confirmed with new samples of adult specimens collected from the type locality. Subsequent descriptions of adult males and females by Sen et al. (2015) and Dhali et al. (2017) are not considered adequate, since the drawings are not suitable for recognising details of the respective copulatory organs. We were not able to examine and illustrate this material, since it was not sent on our request.

Figures

FIGURES 4A–E. Dendrolycosa gitae (Tikader, 1970). A. Holotype female, dorsal view; B. Same, ventral view; D. Paratype female dorsal view; D, E. Original labels. Scale bars: A–C: 2 mm.

FIGURE 5. Collecting localities of Dendrolycosa species in India. Yellow circle indicating the type locality, yellow stars records identified as that species, but see comments in the text.