Cheiracanthium tigbauaensis Barrion & Litsinger, 1995

Esyunin, Sergei L. & Zamani, Alireza, 2020, ‘ Conundrum of esoterica’: on the long-forgotten genus Eutittha Thorell, 1878, with new taxonomic considerations in Cheiracanthium C. L. Koch, 1839 (Araneae: Cheiracanthiidae), Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) 54 (19 - 20), pp. 1293-1323 : 1318

Cheiracanthium tigbauaensis Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 , stat. resurr.

Cheiracanthium tigbauaensis Barrion & Litsinger, 1995, p. 161 , figs 91a–f, 92a–d (description of holotype ♂ from PHILIPPINES: Panay Island (10°40 ʹ 29”N, 122°22 ʹ 39”E), A.T. Barrion leg. 3.VIII.1977, paratype ♂ and ♀ from same locality, A.T. Barrion leg. 9. XI.1978; paratype ♀ from PHILIPPINES: Luzon Island (16°02 ʹ 38”N, 120°29 ʹ 08”E), J.P. Bandong leg. 18.VIII.1979). Deeleman-Reinhold 2001, p. 228 (synonymy with C. insulanum ; here rejected).

Comments

This species was originally described from Panay Island, Philippines ( Barrion and Litsinger 1995) from both sexes. The conspecificity of the two species, C. adjacensoides and C. tigbauaensis , is not at all certain. The respective suggestion by Deeleman-Reinhold (2001, p. 231) is not reasonable. In the original description of C. tigbauaensis it is indicated that ‘tegular apophysis moderately broad, squarely cut below before the tapering distal end’ ( Barrion and Litsinger 1995, p. 164, fig. 91b, c), while TA of C. adjacensoides is unmodified, rounded at the apex ( Song et al. 1990: fig 3).