Wanniyala hakgala Huber & Benjamin, 2005

Huber, Bernhard A., 2019, The pholcid spiders of Sri Lanka (Araneae: Pholcidae), Zootaxa 4550 (1), pp. 1-57 : 33-34

Wanniyala hakgala Huber & Benjamin, 2005

Wanniyala hakgala Huber & Benjamin, 2005: 3317 , figs 5f–i, 7e–h, 8 (♂ ♀, Sri Lanka).

Diagnosis (amendments; see Huber & Benjamin 2005). Males are distinguished from congeners by retrolateral sclerite of procursus with large sickle-shaped dorsal process ( Huber & Benjamin 2005: figs 7e, f) and by modification of clypeus (pair of small lateral processes, with median indistinct hump). Females are easily distinguished from most known congeners (except W. mudita sp. n., W. orientalis sp. n.) by shape of epigynum (strongly projecting and pointed in lateral view; Huber & Benjamin 2005: fig. 5i); they differ from both species by details of internal genitalia (elongated pore plates; Huber & Benjamin 2005: fig. 7h); from W. mudita also by narrower anterior ‘valve’.

New record. SRI LANKA: 1♂ in pure ethanol, ZFMK (Benj 51), Uva Province, Badulla District, Passara-Ella road (B113), Mausagalla [=Maussagolla] (6.909°N, 81.132°E), 22.i.2014 (S.P. Benjamin, N. Athukorala) .

Description (amendments; see Huber & Benjamin 2005). Procursi of male from Mausagalla appear identical in all aspects to those of the type locality illustrated in Huber & Benjamin (2005, figs 7e, f). Measurements of this specimen: tibia 1: 3.9; distance between tips of cheliceral apophyses: 0.79. Sternum black with light median mark anteriorly; dark rings subdistally on femora and tibiae.

Distribution. Known from two localities in central Sri Lanka ( Fig. 227 ). The 4♀ from Kandy (deposited in RMNH) identified in Huber & Benjamin (2005) as W. hakgala are here considered to represent W. mudita (see below). The single female from Kumbukana (ZMUT AA 3632) identified in Huber & Benjamin (2005) as W. hakgala was reexamined and is here considered to represent W. orientalis (see below).

Figures

FIGURES 226–227. Known distribution of Wanniyala.