Taxon details

Family: Liocranidae / Genus: Sphingius

Sphingius caniceps Simon, 1906

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: f
  • Last updated: 2021-09-23
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025444]
  • Distribution: India
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; f (5057/18) of Sosticus poonaensis (Sankaran & Caleb, 2021)
  • Paratype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; 2f (5058/18) of Sosticus poonaensis (Sankaran & Caleb, 2021)
  • Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; 1f 1jf (17599) (Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2020f)
Taxonomic references
Sphingius caniceps Simon, 1906c: 301 (Df).
Sphingius caniceps Gravely, 1931: 271, f. 19E-F (Dm, f; misidentified per Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2020f: 15).
Sosticus poonaensis Tikader, 1982b: 440, f. 330-334 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027976].
Sphingius caniceps Majumder & Tikader, 1991: 150, f. 315-319 (f; misidentified per Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2020f: 15).
Sphingius caniceps Dankittipakul, Tavano & Singtripop, 2011b: 19, f. 38-39 (f).
Sphingius caniceps Sankaran & Caleb, 2021: 554, f. 69-72, 75-77 (f, S of Sosticus poonaensis).
References

Dankittipakul, P., Tavano, M. L. & Singtripop, T. (2011b). Neotype designation for Sphingius thecatus Thorell, 1890, synonymies, new records and descriptions of six new species from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Liocranidae). Zootaxa 3066: 1-20. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3066.1.1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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

Majumder, S. C. & Tikader, B. K. (1991). Studies on some spiders of the family Clubionidae from India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 102: 1-175. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sankaran, P. M. & Caleb, J. T. D. (2021). On the taxonomic validity of Indian ground spiders: V. Genera Megamyrmaekion Reuss, 1834, Sosticus Chamberlin, 1922 and Gaviphosa gen. nov. (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Zootaxa 5040(4): 539-564. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5040.4.5 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1906c). Voyage de M. Maurice Maindron dans l'Inde méridionale (mai à novembre 1901). 8me Mémoire. Arachnides (2e partie). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 75(3): 279-314. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tikader, B. K. (1982b). Part 2. Family Gnaphosidae. In: The fauna of India. Spiders: Araneae. Vol. II. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, pp. 295-536. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2021-09-23 New taxonomic reference entry Sankaran & Caleb, 2021 n/a
2021-09-23 Species synonymy Sankaran & Caleb, 2021 Sphingius poonaensis synonymized with Sphingius caniceps