Coenoptychus pulcher Simon, 1885

Sankaran, Pradeep M., 2021, A review of the Indian species of Apochinomma Pavesi, 1881 and Corinnomma Karsch, 1880, synonymy of Castianeira quadrimaculata Reimoser, 1934, and a catalogue of the Indian corinnid fauna (Arachnida: Araneae), Zootaxa 5072 (6), pp. 541-559 : 553

Coenoptychus pulcher Simon, 1885

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Coenoptychus pulcher Simon, 1885: 37 (♀); Gravely, 1931: 276, fig. 20G (♀); Majumder & Tikader, 1991: 145, figs 306–310 (♀); Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001: 329, figs 486–488 (♀); Paul et al., 2018: 165, figs 1A–D, 2A–H, 3A–F, 4A–C, F–K (♂ ♀); Caleb, 2020: 15720, figs 5G–L, 25J (♂ ♀).

Onychocryptus mutillaris Karsch, 1892: 295, plate XI, fig. 17 (♀).

Coenoptychus pulchellus Simon, 1897b: 174 (lapsus); Green, 1912: 92, figs 5–6 (♂ ♀).

Castaneira quadrimaculata Reimoser, 1934: 490 , fig. 13 (♂) (lapsus).

Castianeira quadrimaculata Majumder & Tikader, 1991: 143 , figs 302–305 (♂) (misidentification); Sankaran et al., 2019: 332 syn. nov.

Type material. C. pulcher . Holotype ♀ from INDIA: Tamil Nadu: Ramnad / Ramanathapuram (09°22’N, 78°50’E; 10 m a.s.l.), collector unknown, date unknown, repository MNHN, not examined (illustrations and images of male habitus and palp given in Paul et al. [2018: figs 1A–B, 2A, C, E, F, 3B–D] are diagnostic and were used for comparative purposes).

C. quadrimaculata . Holotype ♂ from INDIA: Tamil Nadu: Koku Malai (=Kokumalai) near Attakatty (10°26’N, 76°59’E; 900 m a.s.l.), leg. J. Carl and K. Escher, 1926-1927, repository MHNG (no register number specified), examined based on photographs.

Justification of the transfer and synonymy of C. quadrimaculata . Reimoser (1934) described C. quadrimaculata based on a male specimen collected from Tamil Nadu.An examination of the holotype male revealed that it is misplaced in Castianeira Keyserling, 1879 , as it has recurved PER ( Fig. 9B ) that is procurved or straight in Castianeira species ( Deeleman-Reinhold 1993). Further examination of the palp of C. quadrimaculata shows no distinguishable differences between it and C. pulcher , indicating that C. quadrimaculata belongs to Coenoptychus and is a junior synonym of C. pulcher , in contrast to Deeleman-Reinhold (2001) and Sankaran et al. (2019), who doubted its synonymy with A. nitidum (compare Fig. 9A, C–D with Paul et al. 2018: figs 1A–B, 2A, C, E, F, 3B–D). Thus, I propose to consider C. quadrimaculata as a junior synonym of C. pulcher .

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FIGURE 9. Coenoptychus pulcher Simon, 1885, holotype male of Castianeira quadrimaculata Reimoser, 1934: A habitus, dorsal view; B eye group, dorsal view; C–D left palp in ventral (C) and retrolateral (D) views; E labels from type bottle. Figures not to scale. © MHNG, Geneva.