Hitobia singhi ( Tikader & Gajbe, 1976 ) Sankaran & Caleb & Sebastian, 2021
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https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2020.1871523 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E487C5-441B-2322-FE8C-9107FE0DFBAB |
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Hitobia singhi ( Tikader & Gajbe, 1976 ) |
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comb. nov. |
Hitobia singhi ( Tikader & Gajbe, 1976) View in CoL comb. nov. ( Figure 8 View Figure 8 )
Sergiolus singhi Tikader & Gajbe, 1976: 189 View in CoL , figs 10–13 (♀). Tikader 1982: 445, figs 338–342 (♀). Gajbe 2007: 474, figs 146–150 (♀).
Sergiolus singhii Brignoli, 1983: 577 (lapsus).
Type material
Holotype female from INDIA: Karnataka: Tumakuru (=Tumkur): Chiknayakanhalli Taluk: Bellara: Forest Lodge Compound, N.P. Singh leg., 30 October 1975, repository NZC-ZSI, Kolkata (no register number), examined.
Justification of the transfer
Detailed examination of the type of S. singhi revealed that it lacks diagnostic features of Sergiolus (see previous paragraph on H. lamhetaghatensis ), but has all of the diagnostic features of Hitobia as in the case of previous species (compare Figure 8 View Figure 8 (b–d) with Kamura
1992, figs 11, 16, 20, 25). Based on these observations, we propose to transfer S. singhi to Hitobia .
Diagnosis
Females of H. singhi comb. nov. seem closely related to the females of H. poonaensis comb. nov. in the shape of spermathecae, but can be distinguished from the latter by epigyne without anterior hood (which is present in H. poonaensis ) and epigynal plate with V-shaped posterior margin (which is crescent-like in H. poonaensis ) (compare Figure 7 View Figure 7 (d–e) with Figure 8 View Figure 8 (c–d)).
Supplementary description
Female (holotype, Figure 8 View Figure 8 (a–b)). Body length 9.44. Prosoma length 3.42, width 2.72. Opisthosoma length 6.02, width 3.72. Eye sizes and interdistances: ALE 0.13. AME 0.12. PLE 0.14. PME 0.11; AME–AME 0.12. AME–PME 0.20. PME–PLE 0.16. PME–PME 0.15. Length of chelicerae 1.05. Clypeus height at ALEs 0.12, at AMEs 0.15. Epigyne ( Figure 8 View Figure 8 (c–d)): epigynal plate sclerotised, with V-shaped posterior epigynal margin ( Figure 8 View Figure 8 (c)). Copulatory openings small, lying distantly from each other. Spermathecae large sac-like. ( Figure 8 View Figure 8 (d)). Fertilisation ducts narrow, diverging.
Male. Unknown.
Remarks
The ZSI collection has one glass bottle for this species labelled as ‘holotype’ (5052/18) containing a female specimen in poor condition. The same bottle has a small glass vial containing the dissected epigyne. There is a glass bottle in the ZSI collection containing a female specimen (4017/18) in poor condition collected from Maharashtra by V .D. Srivastava on 10 February 1970. It is misidentified as S. singhi and is, in fact, H. poonaensis comb. nov.
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Hitobia singhi ( Tikader & Gajbe, 1976 )
Sankaran, Pradeep M., Caleb, John T. D. & Sebastian, Pothalil A. 2021 |
Sergiolus singhii
Brignoli PM 1983: 577 |
Sergiolus singhi
Gajbe UA 2007: 474 |
Tikader BK 1982: 445 |
Tikader BK & Gajbe UA 1976: 189 |