World Spider Catalog

Genus: Titanidiops Simon, 1903 | Family: Idiopidae Simon, 1889

Titanidiops kolhapurensis Gangalmale, Thackeray, Khandekar & Gaikwad, 2026

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066722

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Described:

Distribution: India

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore/Bengaluru, Karnataka, India f (NRC-AA-1191) - (Gangalmale et al., 2026)
Paratype: National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore/Bengaluru, Karnataka, India 2m 4f (NRC-AA 1192-1197) - (Gangalmale et al., 2026)
Paratype: Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), Mumbai, India 1m 1f (SP 419-420) - (Gangalmale et al., 2026)

Taxonomic References

Titanidiops kolhapurensis Gangalmale et al., 2026: 401, f. 1A-E, 2A-F, 3A-B, 4A-J, 5A-B (Dmf; authorship attributed to Simon, but no evidence given for this fact, not accepted here) Original description

References

Gangalmale, S., Thackeray, T., Khandekar, A. & Gaikwad, S. M. (2026). A new species of the trapdoor spider genus Titanidiops Simon (Araneae: Idiopidae) from western Maharashtra, India. Journal of Natural History 60(5-8): 399-419. doi: 10.1080/00222933.2025.2603654 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2026-02-03	New taxonomic reference entry	Gangalmale et al., 2026
2026-02-03	New species inserted	Gangalmale et al., 2026

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