Sphingius nainitalensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Dionycha

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Araneae Subordo: Opisthothelae Infraordo: Araneomorphae Series: Entelegynae Sectio: Dionycha

Familia: Liocranidae
Subfamilia: Oedignathinae
Genus: Sphingius
Species: Sphingius nainitalensis

Name

Sphingius nainitalensis (Gajbe, 1979)

Type locality: India, Uttarakhand: Nainital (formerly in Uttar Pradesh): Kaladhungi forest (not Koladurgi) (28°56’11’’N, 79°14’38’’E), 263 m alt.

Holotype: NZC-ZSI. female ♀. 22.XII.1970. legit Asket Singh. 4318/18.

Synonymy

• Sosticus nainitalensis Gajbe, 1979: 71 (synonymized by Sankaran & Caleb, 2021: 556)
• Sphingius nainitalensis (Gajbe): Sankaran & Caleb, 2021: 556

References

Primary references

• Gajbe, U.A. 1979. Studies on some spiders of the genus Sosticus from India (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Bulletin of the Zoological Survey of India 2: 69-74. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Sankaran, P.M. & Caleb, J.T.D. 2021. On the taxonomic validity of Indian ground spiders: V. Genera Megamyrmaekion Reuss, 1834, Sosticus Chamberlin, 1922 and Gaviphosa gen. nov. (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Zootaxa 5040(4): 539–564. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5040.4.5. . Reference page.