Talaus oblitus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4858.3.6 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4412494 |
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Talaus oblitus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899 View in CoL
Figs 2D View FIGURE 2 , 5 View FIGURE 5 A–B
Talaus oblitus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899: 526 View in CoL , pl. 30, fig. 8.
Type material. Holotype: male, SRI LANKA, no more locality data given, leg. G. H. K. Thwaites ( OUMNH b 1242 t.8, examined).
Diagnosis. Easily distinguishable from congeners by the filiform embolus winding 2/3 around tegulum, the short, hooked VTA (lateral view) and the enlarged, truncated RTA.
Other material examined. SRI LANKA: Central province: 1♂, Kandy District, Peradeniya Botanical Gardens , 460 m, 7° 17’ 57”N 80° 38’ 29”E, 29 December 2011, litter, Yuri Marusik ( ZFMK, IFS _Tho_129,) GoogleMaps ; 1♂, same locality, Hantana , 07° 14’ 57” N 80° 36’ 50” E, 18 December 2012, beating, N. Athukorala et al. ( ZFMK, IFS _Tho_178,) GoogleMaps .
Description. Male (from Peradeniya Botanical Gardens): Total length: 2.5; prosoma length: 1.2, width: 1.1. Leg I: femur 1.2, patella 0.4, tibia 1.1, metatarsus 1.0, tarsus 0.6. Prosoma reddish brown, with some long setae (prominent along the posterior margin), surface without markings. ALE, PLE on tubercles, not connected to each other. ALE>PLE>AME=PME, MOA wider than long, distance between AMEs three diameter of AME. Distance between PME more than 4x AME. Opisthosoma yellow-brown, with uniformly distributed black flakes. Palp as in Figs 5 View FIGURE 5 A–B, filiform embolus, large, truncate RTA.
Female: Unknown.
Distribution. Sri Lanka.
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Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig |
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Talaus oblitus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899
Benjamin, Suresh P. 2020 |
Talaus oblitus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899: 526
Pickard-Cambridge, O. 1899: 526 |