Draconarius harduarae ( Biswas & Roy, 2008 ) Biswas & Roy, 2008

Sankaran, Pradeep M. & Sebastian, Pothalil A., 2017, Redescription of Zoica puellula (Simon, 1898) (Araneae: Lycosidae: Zoicinae) and transfer of Zoica harduarae (Biswas & Roy, 2008) to Agelenidae C. L. Koch, 1837, Zootaxa 4276 (1), pp. 145-150 : 149-150

Draconarius harduarae ( Biswas & Roy, 2008) comb.nov.

Flanona harduarae Biswas & Roy, 2008: 55 , figs 16–18.

Type material. Holotype female of Flanona harduarae Biswas & Roy, 2008 from INDIA: Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand): Garwall (Garhwal) Hills: Chamoli: Copta ( Chopta ); R. N. Bhargav leg.; 19 July 1978 (ZSI5587/18) (not examined).

Remarks. Biswas & Roy (2008) described this species based on a single female specimen from Garwall (Garhwal) Hills in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand (formerly known as Uttaranchal). It was placed in Flanona as it ‘resembles Flanona puellula Simon, 1898 ’ without providing any further detail. The original description provided no information on its genitalic morphology, other than the two illustrations of the epigynum and internal female genitalia ( Biswas & Roy 2008: figs 17–18). The eye pattern illustrated for this species does not conform to the typical eye arrangement of lycosid spiders (4+2+2). Available illustrations suggest this species belong to the agelenid genus Draconarius Ovtchinnikov, 1999 : shape of prosoma and opisthosoma, pattern of eye arrangement, larger posterior row of eyes, epigynum with median atrium and large spermathecae encircled with copulatory ducts. Based on these resemblances, we propose to transfer Z. harduarae to Draconarius .