Replacement Name For Amaurobius indicus Bastawade And Its Transfer To Family Corinnidae (Arachnida: Araneae)
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REPLACEMENT NAME FOR
AMAUROBIUS
INDICUS
BASTAWADE
AND ITS TRANSFER TO FAMILY
CORINNIDAE
(ARACHNIDA:
ARANEAE
)
D.B. Bastawade
Zoological Survey of India, Western Regional Station, Rawet Road, Akurdi, Pune, Maharashtra 411044, India Email: zsipune.mah@nic.in
Amaurobius indicus
Bastawade
was described as a new species under the family
Amaurobiidae (
Bastawade, 2002
)
.
Siliwal
et al
. (2005
: see II.a.2) referred to this species as 'misplaced' on the figures and characters given by the author. In his World Catalog of Spiders,
Platnick (
2006
)
remarked the species to be 'misplaced' following
Siliwal
et al.
(2005)
. Literature search for the characters for the placement of this species suggested that this species should be placed under the family
Corinnidae
. This Note is in keeping with the recommendations by the two sources in standardizing arachnid taxonomy.
The family
Corinnidae
is represented by 35 known species under nine genera and, out of these, six genera and 25 species are endemic to the Indian mainland (
Siliwal
et al.,
2005
). The genus
Oedignatha
Thorell 1881
, presently includes 13 species from India.
Majumder and Tikader (1991)
and
Reddy and Patel (1993)
had placed the genus
Oedignatha
Thorell, 1881
under the Family
Clubionidae
but it has now been transferred to the Family
Corinnidae (
Platnick, 2006
)
.
The studies of diagnostic characters of the Family
Corinnidae
and of the genus
Oedignatha
suggest that the previously described
Amaurobius indicus
Bastawade
should be transferred to family
Corinnidae
and the genus
Oedignatha
.
This species was described by me (
Bastawade, 2002
) based on
Amaurobius andamanensis
Tikader, 1977
and had provided a key to distinguish the two. However,
Deeleman-Reinhold (2001)
transferred
A. andamanensis
to genus
Oedignatha
(IX.g.
2 in
Siliwal
et al
., 2005
). Since
A. indicus
Bastawade, 2002
meets the characters of genus
Oedignatha
like
O. andamanensis
, I propose the transfer of
A. indicus
to genus
Oedignatha
. Since,
Oedignatha indica
Reddy & Patel, 1993
is preoccupied (see # IX.g.7 in
Siliwal
et al
., 2005
), I propose a replacement name
Oedignatha raigadensis
nom. nov.
,
as per Article No. 60 of the
ICZN (1999)
. The proposed name is after the district in which the type locality Khalapur occurs.
The type material are preserved in 70% alcohol and currently deposited at
ZSI
,
WRS
,
Pune
with the following registration numbers:
I/1104
(
holotype
female
),
I/1105
(
paratype
male
),
I/ 1106a
&
b
(
paratype
females
)
.