Shearella sanya Lin & Li, 2010

Sankaran, Pradeep M. & Sebastian, Pothalil A., 2016, A checklist of Indian armored spiders (Araneae, Tetrablemmidae) with the description of a new species from the Western Ghats, Zootaxa 4084 (3), pp. 443-450 : 446

Shearella sanya Lin & Li, 2010 comb. rev.

Shearella sanya Lin & Li, 2010: 23 , figs. 19–28 (Description and illustration of male & female [Holotype male and paratypes male & female from CHINA: Hainan: Sanya City: Liudaohai Hill at seacoast; Li & C. X. Wang leg.; 15-07-2007; deposited in IZCAS). Tong, 2013: 80, figs. 94D–G & 96A–F (Description and illustration of male & female). Sinamma sanya: Lin & Li, 2014: 37 (transfer)

Justification of the transfer: This species was originally described in the genus Shearella (see Lin & Li 2010) within the subfamily Tetrablemminae . Lin & Li (2014) transferred it to the newly erected Chinese genus Sinamma Lin & Li, 2014 without providing proper justification for the transfer. According to Lin & Li (2014), the genus Sinamma is characterized by the presence of a pointed eye tubercle on the male prosoma, by a strongly modified male leg I and by an exceptionally narrow postgenital plate in male and female. Despite the conical eye tubercle on the male prosoma, a character shared by other genera such as Ablemma Roewer, 1963 , Anansia Lehtinen, 1981 , Gunasekara , and Shearella (see Lehtinen 1981), all other diagnostic features proposed for Sinamma are not present in this species: the male leg I is normal, without a modification, and the postgenital plate in both sexes is moderately wide (see Lin & Li 2010: figs 22 & 28). On the other hand, this species shares generic features of Shearella such as six eyes in a compact group placed anteriorly on the prosoma, male chelicerae with a conical, basally wide tooth, opisthosoma globular, palp with piriform bulb and simple embolus, and laterally narrow but centrally wide epigastric fold (see Lin & Li 2010: figs 19–20, 23–24, 26 & 28). Here we transfer this species back to Shearella .