taxonID	type	description	language	source
0394879BB77B221AA1B7997DB979B4EB.taxon	description	Figs 1 – 8	en	Sankaran, Pradeep M. (2025): On a new synonym in the genus Sphingius Thorell, 1890 from India (Araneae: Liocranidae). Zootaxa 5665 (4): 597-599, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5665.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5665.4.9
0394879BB77B221AA1B7997DB979B4EB.taxon	materials_examined	Type material. S. bilineatus: holotype ♀, INDIA: Puducherry: Mahé / Mayyazhi (11 ° 42 ' N 75 ° 32 ' E; 2 m a. s. l.), May – November 1901, leg. M. M. Maindron, repository MNHN (AR 17739; Simon’s number 16197), examined based on photographs. S. barkudensis: lectotype ♂ and paralectotype 2 ♀, INDIA: Odisha: Ganjam: Chilika Lake: Barkuda Island (19 ° 33 ' N, 85 ° 08 ' E; 13 m a. s. l.), 3 – 19 August 1919, leg. F. H. Gravely, repository NZC-ZSI (no register number) examined [type images are provided in Sankaran et al. (2020) — not re-examined].	en	Sankaran, Pradeep M. (2025): On a new synonym in the genus Sphingius Thorell, 1890 from India (Araneae: Liocranidae). Zootaxa 5665 (4): 597-599, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5665.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5665.4.9
0394879BB77B221AA1B7997DB979B4EB.taxon	description	Description. Male and female. For diagnosis, description and illustrations of the male and female, see Sankaran et al. (2020). Female dorsal and ventral habitus, anterior and dorsal views of the eye region, sternum and mouthparts, and epigyne of the female holotype of S. bilineatus are illustrated in Figs 1 – 7. The type label is shown in Fig. 8. Justification of the synonymy. Examination of the holotype of S. bilineatus showed that both this species and S. barkudensis share a pear-shaped, membranous epigynal plate, a small, anteriorly positioned sclerotised epigynal hood and mediolaterally placed, crescent-shaped copulatory openings (cf. Fig. 6 and Sankaran et al. 2020: figs 2 D – E, 3 J, 4 C). Furthermore, S. barkudensis has short, stout, diverging copulatory ducts and posteriorly situated spherical spermathecae, which are also consistent with those of S. bilineatus (cf. Fig. 7 and Sankaran et al. 2020: figs 2 E – F, 3 J – K). Based on these observations, I propose S. barkudensis as a junior synonym of S. bilineatus.	en	Sankaran, Pradeep M. (2025): On a new synonym in the genus Sphingius Thorell, 1890 from India (Araneae: Liocranidae). Zootaxa 5665 (4): 597-599, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5665.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5665.4.9
0394879BB77B221AA1B7997DB979B4EB.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Bangladesh, India (Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Odisha, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu; Fig. 9) (World Spider Catalog 2025).	en	Sankaran, Pradeep M. (2025): On a new synonym in the genus Sphingius Thorell, 1890 from India (Araneae: Liocranidae). Zootaxa 5665 (4): 597-599, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5665.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5665.4.9
