Tetrablemma O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873

Lin, Yucheng, Li, Shuqiang & Jaeger, Peter, 2018, Tetrablemmidae, a spider family newly recorded from Cambodia (Arachnida, Araneae), ZooKeys 777, pp. 43-55 : 43

Genus Tetrablemma O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873

Type species.

Tetrablemma medioculatum O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873 from Sri Lanka (see Lehtinen 1981).

Note.

The gender of Tetrablemma is neuter, therefore two species names described previously are amended (see below). The ending “-ensis” denotes a place, a locality or a country. It forms an adjective with two endings: “-ensis” for genera masculine or feminine in gender, and “-ense” for genera neuter in gender.

Composition.

Twenty-seven species were known before the current study: T. alaus Burger, Harvey & Stevens, 2010, T. alterum Roewer, 1963, T. benoiti (Brignoli, 1978), T. brevidens Tong & Li, 2008, T. brignolii Lehtinen, 1981, T. deccanense (Tikader, 1976), T. extorre Shear, 1978, T. helenense Benoit, 1977, T. loebli Bourne, 1980, T. magister Burger, 2008, T. manggarai Lehtinen, 1981, T. marawula Lehtinen, 1981, T. mardionoi Lehtinen, 1981, T. medioculatum O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873, T. medioculatum cochinense Lehtinen, 1981, T. medioculatum gangeticum Lehtinen, 1981, T. menglaense Lin & Li, 2014 (species epithet corrected, original published as T. menglaensis ), T. namkhan Lin, Li & Jäger, 2012, T. nandan Lin & Li, 2010, T. okei Butler, 1932, T. phulchoki Lehtinen, 1981, T. rhinoceros (Brignoli, 1974), T. samoense Marples, 1964, T. thamin Labarque & Grismado, 2009, T. viduum (Brignoli, 1974), T. vietnamense Lehtinen, 1981, T. ziyaoense Lin & Li, 2014 (species epithet corrected, original published as T. ziyaoensis ).

Distribution and habitat.

Angola, Australia, Cambodia, China, St. Helena, India, Laos, Indonesia, Micronesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Queensland, Samoa, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Trinidad, Victoria and Vietnam. These previously described species live mainly in the forest litter or in caves.