Corinnomma simplex Zhang, Jin & Zhang, 2022

Sankaran, Pradeep M., 2023, An update on the ant-mimicking genus Corinnomma Karsch, 1880 (Araneae, Corinnidae, Castianeirinae), Zootaxa 5254 (4), pp. 534-544 : 541-542

Corinnomma simplex Zhang, Jin & Zhang, 2022

Fig. 5E

Corinnomma simplex Zhang, Jin & Zhang, 2022: 247 , figs 5A–D, 6A–E, 9C–D, 10C–D (♁ ♀).

Corinnomma severum Sankaran, 2021: 548 , figs 7A–F, 8A–C (♁; misidentified).

Diagnosis. Corinnomma simplex is closely related to C. severum in the general morphology of the genitalia, but the males can be separated from those of the latter species by the short embolus (vs. comparatively long in C. severum ) and the embolus directed at 12-o’clock in ventral view (vs. 1-o’clock in C. severum ) (cf. Fig. 5E with 5D), and the females by S-shaped anterior spermathecae II (vs. inverted J-shaped in C. severum ) (cf. Zhang et al. 2022: fig. 6E with Zhang et al. 2022: fig. 4E).

Description. See Sankaran (2021) and Zhang et al. (2022).

Distribution. China, India (Kerala, Tamil Nadu) ( Sankaran 2021; Zhang et al. 2022).

Remarks. Even though Zhang et al. (2022) pointed out the misidentification of C. simplex in Sankaran (2021), which was described as C. severum , they did not mention the record of this species in India, and is updated herewith.

Figures

FIGURE 5. Male emboli of Corinnomma spp., ventral. A C. javanum Simon, 1905 (syntype); B C. moerens Thorell, 1890 (holotype); C C. plumosum (Thorell, 1881) (holotype); D C. severum (Thorell, 1877) (holotype); E C. simplex Zhang, Jin & Zhang, 2022. All figures are not to scale. © MSNG, Genova, Italy (B–D), ZMH, Germany, (A), ADSH, India (E).