Oedothorax Bertkau in Förster & Bertkau, 1883

Andrei V. Tanasevitch, 2016, A case of disjunct montane linyphiid species (Araneae) in the Palaeotropics, with notes on synonymy and the description of a new species, Revue suisse de Zoologie 123 (2), pp. 235-240 : 237

Oedothorax Bertkau in Förster & Bertkau, 1883

The genus has an almost cosmopolitan distribution and is represented in the Palaearctic by 44 species, in the Afrotropics by 10, in the Oriental by nine, and in the Nearctic by seven species (based mostly on the World Spider Catalogue, 2016). A single record of an Oedothorax species from the Neotropics, i.e. O. fuegianus ( Simon, 1902) , which was described from Argentina on the basis on a single female ( Simon, 1902), is regarded as a misidentification (see Miller, 2007).

In the following, I present a new Oedothorax species from the Indian Himalayas. This species is very similar to an Afrotropical congener, known from the Comoros, and, like Enguterothrix simpulum (see above), demonstrates close relations between Afrotropical and Oriental linyphiid faunas.