Thelcticopis Karsch, 1884

Sankaran, Pradeep M., Sherwood, Danniella & Jäger, Peter, 2024, On the identity of species of the huntsman spider genus Thelcticopis Karsch, 1884 (Araneae: Sparassidae: Sparianthinae) from India, Myanmar, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, Zootaxa 5463 (3), pp. 301-338 : 303

Thelcticopis Karsch, 1884

Rhomalea L. Koch, 1873: 435

(type species R. vasta L. Koch, 1873 ). Simon 1897a: 68, 72 (= Thelcticopis , nom. preocc.).

Themeropis L. Koch, 1875: 699

(type species T. severa L. Koch, 1875 ). Karsch 1884: 65 (replacement name Thelcticopis , nom. preocc.).

Seramba Thorell, 1887: 253

(type species S. picta Thorell, 1887 ). Jäger 2005: 57 (syn.).

Mardonia Thorell, 1897: 246

(type species M. fasciata Thorell, 1897 ). Deeleman-Reinhold 2001: 401 , 505, sub. Seramba ).

Type species. Thelcticopis severa (L. Koch, 1875) , by subsequent designation ( Simon 1897a: 72).

Composition. Fifty-two species ( World Spider Catalog 2024).

Distribution. Australia, South, East and Southeast Asia ( World Spider Catalog 2024), African species are noncongeneric (see introduction).

Note. The present paper is considered a first step of a larger revision of Thelcticopis . As long as not all nominal species have been examined from the entire distribution range, no diagnostic characters can be given. Several species now listed under this genus will eventually be transferred to other genera. Species from Africa are considered misplaced ( Jäger & Kunz 2005; PJ pers. obs.), and should be transferred from Thelcticopis after a thorough revision of other, particularly African, material.