Taxon details


Bowie ceylonensis (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-08-22
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020521]
  • Distribution: Sri Lanka
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  • Holotype: ; m (whereabouts unknown) of Ctenus cuspidatus (Jäger, 2022a)
  • Syntype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; 1m 1f (Jäger, 2022a)
  • Syntype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK; 6m 6f (HECO 1543) (Jäger, 2022a)
Taxonomic references
Ctenus trabifer Karsch, 1892: 295, pl. 11, f. 18-18b (f; misidentified per Roewer, 1951: 446).
Ctenus ceylonensis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897c: 346, pl. 4, f. 12, 26 (Dmf).
Ctenus cuspidatus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902b: 406, pl. 7, f. 12-13 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054992].
Ctenus ceylonensis Gravely, 1931: 232, f. 2B-C (f).
Ctenus karschi Roewer, 1951: 446 (Dmf, new name for specimens misidentified as C. trabifer by Karsch, 1892) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020605].
Ctenus ceylonensis Tikader & Malhotra, 1981: 108, f. 2A-D (mf, S of Ctenus cuspidatus).
"Ctenus karschi" Jäger, 2012e: 33 (name not available - taken as nomen dubium by Platnick).
Bowie ceylonensis Jäger, 2022a: 44, f. 169-172, 201-209 (mf, T from Ctenus, S of Ctenus karschi by interpretation of Ctenus trabifer sensu Karsch, 1892: 295).
References

Gravely, F. H. (1931). Some Indian spiders of the families Ctenidae, Sparassidae, Selenopidae and Clubionidae. Records of the Indian Museum, Calcutta 33(3): 211-282. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Jäger, P. (2022a). Bowie gen. nov., a diverse lineage of ground-dwelling spiders occurring from the Himalayas to Papua New Guinea and northern Australia (Araneae: Ctenidae: Cteninae). Zootaxa 5170(1): 1-200. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5170.1.1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Jäger, P. (2012e). Asian species of the genera Anahita Karsch 1879, Ctenus Walckenaer 1805 and Amauropelma Raven, Stumkat & Gray 2001 (Arachnida: Araneae: Ctenidae). Zootaxa 3429: 1-63. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3429.1.1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Karsch, F. (1892). Arachniden von Ceylon und von Minikoy gesammelt von den Herren Doctoren P. und F. Sarasin. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 36(2, 1891): 267-310, pl. 10-12. [published mid March 1892] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1897c). On the cteniform spiders of Ceylon, Burmah and the Indian archipelago, west and north of Wallace's line; with bibliography and list of those from Australia, south and east of Wallace's line. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 20(118): 329-356, pl. 4. doi:10.1080/00222939708680638 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1902b). New species of spiders belonging to the genus Ctenus, with supplementary notes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 9(54): 401-415, pl. 7. doi:10.1080/00222930208678530 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1951). Neue Namen einiger Araneen-Arten. Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins zu Bremen 32: 437-456. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tikader, B. K. & Malhotra, M. S. (1981). Revision of spiders of the genus Ctenus Walckenaer from India (Araneae: Ctenidae). Records of the Zoological Survey of India 79(1-2): 105-124. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2022-08-22 Species synonymy Jäger, 2022a Bowie karschi synonymized with Bowie ceylonensis
2022-08-22 New taxonomic reference entry Jäger, 2022a n/a
2022-08-22 Species transferred to new genus Jäger, 2022a Species transferred from Ctenus to Bowie