Pseudotriaeris karschi ( Boesenberg & Strand, 1906)

Tong, Yanfeng & Li, Shuqiang, 2014, A survey of oonopid spiders in Taiwan with descriptions of three new species, ZooKeys 396, pp. 67-86 : 72

Pseudotriaeris karschi ( Boesenberg & Strand, 1906)

Gamasomorpha karschi : Bösenberg and Strand 1906: 117, pl. 16, fig. 455.

Pseudotriaeris karschi : Brignoli 1974: 77, figs 7-11; Song 1987: 96, fig. 60.

Pseudotriaeris echinatus : Yin and Wang 1984: 55, fig. 4 A–K.

Material examined.

CHINA: Taiwan: Pingtung County, Kenting, seaside near Howard Beach Resort, 21°56'27.00"N, 120°48'26.68"E, elevation ca. 34 m, 25-28 June 2013, S. Li & Y. Tong leg., 2 ♂, 2 ♀ (SYNU-19); 4 ♂, 2 ♀ (SYNU-41).

Comments.

Brignoli erected the genus Pseudotriaeris in 1974, based on the type species Pseudotriaeris karschi from Japan. Yin and Wang (1984) described Pseudotriaeris echinatus from Hunan, China, but it was synonymized with the type species by Song (1987). Currently, this species is known from Anhui, Hunan and Zhejiang Provinces of China and from Japan. However, the species Pseudotriaeris karschi has never been studied in detail. The specimens from China have not been compared with the type specimens, and may belong to one or more different species. The generic characters, such as the male palps with complicated apophyses and the male endites with a backwards folded ridge, are very similar to those of the genus Xyphinus Simon, 1893 (see Deeleman-Reinhold 1987). We suspect that this genus can be synonymized with Xyphinus . A thorough investigation of the type species Pseudotriaeris karschi is now required.

Distribution.

China, Japan. Newly recorded from Taiwan.