Clubiona melanosticta Thorell, 1890 Figs 44, 45, 59A, 69A, 78F, 86F, 94F

Clubiona melanosticta Thorell, 1890: 374 (♂); Thorell 1895: 42 (♀); Deeleman-Reinhold 2001: 123, figs 51-52 (♂); Dankittipakul and Singtripop 2008a: 42, figs 8-10, 52-54 (♂).

Clubiona melanothele Thorell, 1895: 42 (♀). Syn. nov.

Material examined.

1♂ 3♀, China: Yunnan Province: Xishuangbanna: Mengla County: Menglun Town: XTBG, Paramichelia baillonii Clubiona plantation (ca. 20 yr.), 21°54.200'N, 101°16.923'E, ca. 608 m, 18.VIII.2007, G. Zheng leg ; 1♂ (YHCLU0011), XTBG, teak Clubiona plantation, 21°54.117'N, 101°16.167'E, ca. 549 m, 8.VIII.2018, H. Yu et al. leg; 1♀ (YHCLU0164), XTBG, 100 acre-feet sample plot (beside a hut), 21°54.117'N, 101°16.167'E, ca. 549 m, 11.VIII.2018, H. Yu et al.

Diagnosis and description.

See Deeleman-Reinhold (2001). Male palp as in Figs 44, 59A, 69A, epigyne as in Figs 45A-D, 78F, 86F, 94F, habitus as in Fig. 45E-H.

Remarks.

Clubiona melanosticta and C. melanothele were considered separate species for more than 120 years. After examining the holotypes, Deeleman-Reinhold (2001) illustrated the two species and suggested that they could be conspecific; however, she made no taxonomic changes at the time. New material has been collected from Xishuangbanna containing both sexes. According to drawings of Deeleman-Reinhold (2001), the males were identified as C. melanosticta, and the females were identified as C. melanothele . Based on morphology (Fig. 45E-H) and DNA barcoding data (Table 1), we matched the females and males together. Therefore, the two names are synonymised, and priority is given to C. melanosticta .

Distribution.

Thailand (Chiang Mai, Samut Songkram), Indonesia (Sumatra, Krakatau), New Guinea, Myanmar, Laos, China (Yunnan).

Most similar species.

Clubiona zhanggureni .