Tikader & Malhotra, 1976: 794 Tikader, 1981: 139 Transfer of the Indian species formerly included in the genus Lutica Marx, 1891 to Tropizodium Jocqué & Churchill, 2005 and Zodarion Walckenaer, 1826 (Araneae Zodariidae) Sankaran, Pradeep M. Caleb, John T. D. Sebastian, Pothalil A. Zootaxa 2019 2019-08-21 4658 1 168 174 98ZYP (Tikader & Malhotra, 1976) Sankaran & Caleb & Sebastian 2019 Tikader & Malhotra 1976 [151,774,297,324] Arachnida Zodariidae Zodarion Animalia Araneae 5 173 Arthropoda species deccanensis comb. nov.  ( Fig. 4A–H)     Lutica deccanensis  Tikader & Malhotra, 1976: 794, figs 1–5 (Description and illustrations of male and female).  Tikader, 1981: 139, figs 1–2 (Illustrations of female).   Type material.  Holotypefemale from INDIA: Maharashtra: Pune(=Poona): Gokhale Nagar: Vetal Hill( 18°31’31.76’’N, 73°48’55.38’’E),  705 malt.; M.S. Malhotraleg.;  21 July 1974; repository NZC-ZSI, Kolkata(no register number), examined.  Allotype( 1 male, no register number) with same data as holotype, examined.  Type material status.The ZSI collection has three glass bottles for this species. The first bottle, labelled as ‘holotype’, contains one female specimen with broken legs. The second bottle, labelled as ‘allotype’, contains one highly bleached male. The third bottle, labelled as ‘internal genitalia of  L. deccanensis’, contains the dissected genitalia of the holotype.  Justification of transfer. Tikader and Malhotra (1976)described this species based on one female and one male specimens collected in Maharashtra. Detailed examination of the holotype( Fig. 4A, C–D) and the allotype( Fig. 4B, E) indicates that this species deviates from the diagnostic features of  Tropizodiumspecies. The shape of the female prosoma ( Fig. 4A), shape and orientation of the embolus ( Fig. 4E), shape of the epigyne ( Fig. 4C) and shape and orientation of the vulva ( Fig. 4D) show close similarity with the species of  ZodarionWalckenaer, 1826. Based on these observations, we propose to transfer  L. deccanensisto  Zodarion. 2350486610 1974-07-21 M. S. Malhotra & Kolkata India Pune 705 18.525488 Vetal Hill 1 73.815384 Gokhale Nagar 5 173 1 Maharashtra holotype 2350486609 [472,1334,2012,2039] 1974-07-21 M. S. Malhotra & Kolkata India Pune 705 18.525488 Vetal Hill 1 73.815384 Gokhale Nagar 5 173 1 1 Maharashtra allotype