Talaus oblitus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899

Benjamin, Suresh P., 2020, Distributional and taxonomic notes on the crab spider genus Talaus Simon, 1886 with description of a new species (Araneae: Thomisidae), Zootaxa 4858 (3), pp. 405-416 : 411

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4858.3.6

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:ED66FF95-BC0F-4FB2-8BFD-44666A59EFB9

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4412494

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/13794039-FFA1-902D-D992-4F94C483F677

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scientific name

Talaus oblitus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899
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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.

ZFMK

Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Thomisidae

Genus

Talaus

Loc

Talaus oblitus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899

Benjamin, Suresh P. 2020
2020
Loc

Talaus oblitus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899: 526

Pickard-Cambridge, O. 1899: 526
1899
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