Taxon details


Oxyopes hindostanicus Pocock, 1901

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-07-04
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019998]
  • Distribution: Pakistan, Maldives, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; 1m 1f (1954.7.6.8) (Caleb & Wijesinghe, 2022)
  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; m (1954.7.6.6) of Oxyopes nilgiricus (Caleb & Wijesinghe, 2022)
  • Holotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; f (5518/18) of Oxyopes pankaji (Caleb & Wijesinghe, 2022)
  • Holotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; f (A/325 3174/18) of Oxyopes ratnae (Caleb & Wijesinghe, 2022)
  • Paratype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; 2m 2f (A/327 3175/18, 3176/18) of Oxyopes ratnae (Caleb & Wijesinghe, 2022)
Taxonomic references
Oxyopes hindostanicus Pocock, 1901d: 482 (Dmf).
Oxyopes hindostanicus Dyal, 1935: 151, pl. 14, f. 66 (f).
Oxyopes hindostanicus Sherriffs, 1951: 657, f. 8-13 (mf).
Oxyopes hindostanicus Sherriffs, 1955: 304, f. 34 (m).
Oxyopes nilgiricus Sherriffs, 1955: 306, f. 29-33 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020056].
Oxyopes ratnae Tikader, 1970: 70, f. 42a-c (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020091].
Oxyopes ratnae Tikader & Biswas, 1981: 63, f. 102-104 (mf).
Oxyopes ratnae Gajbe, 1999: 53, f. 45-47 (mf).
Oxyopes pankaji Gajbe & Gajbe, 2000d: 123, f. 1-4 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040928].
Oxyopes pankaji Gajbe, 2004d: 73, f. 79-82 (f).
Oxyopes hindostanicus Gajbe, 2008c: 51, f. 102-105 (mf).
Oxyopes pankaji Gajbe, 2008c: 70, f. 146-149 (f).
Oxyopes ratnae Gajbe, 2008c: 74, f. 156-158 (mf).
Oxyopes ratnae Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2015: 227, f. 4a-f (mf).
Oxyopes pankaji Dhali, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2017: 66, f. 296-300, pl. 22 (f).
Oxyopes hindostanicus Caleb, 2020b: 15727, f. 14A-E, 27D (mf).
Oxyopes hindostanicus Caleb & Wijesinghe, 2022: 14, f. 1-2, 4-29 (mf, S of Oxyopes nilgiricus, O. pankaji and O. ratnae).
References

Biswas, V. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2015). Lynx spiders of Khulna District of Bangladesh: genus Oxyopes Latreille (Areaneae[sic]: Oxyopidae). Bangladesh Journal of Zoology 43(2): 221-238. doi:10.3329/bjz.v43i2.27394 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Caleb, J. T. D. (2020b). Spider (Arachnida: Araneae) fauna of the scrub jungle in the Madras Christian College campus, Chennai, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 12(7): 15711-15766. doi:10.11609/jott.5758.12.7.15711-15766 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Caleb, J. T. D. & Wijesinghe, D. P. (2022). On three new synonyms of Oxyopes hindostanicus Pocock 1901 (Araneae: Oxyopidae). Acta Arachnologica 71(1): 13-20. doi:10.2476/asjaa.71.13 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dhali, D. C., Saha, S. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2017). Litter and ground dwelling spiders (Araneae: Arachnida) of reserve forests of Dooars, West Bengal. World Scientific News 63: 1-242. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dyal, S. (1935). Fauna of Lahore. 4.–Spiders of Lahore. Bulletin of the Department of Zoology of the Panjab University 1: 119-252, pl. 11-17. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gajbe, U. A. (2008c). Fauna of India and the adjacent countries: Spider (Arachnida: Araneae: Oxyopidae). Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata 3, 1-117. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gajbe, U. A. & Gajbe, P. (2000d). A new species of the genus Oxyopes Latreille (Araneae: Oxyopidae) from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 98: 123-125. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gajbe, P. U. (2004d). Spiders of Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh (Arachnida: Araneae). Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 227: 1-154. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gajbe, U. A. (1999). Studies on some spiders of the family Oxyopidae (Araneae: Arachnida) from India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 97(3): 31-79. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1901d). Descriptions of some new species of spiders from British India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 13: 478-498. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sherriffs, W. R. (1951). Some oriental spiders of the genus Oxyopes. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 120(4): 651-677. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1951.tb00670.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sherriffs, W. R. (1955). More Oriental spiders of the genus Oxyopes. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 125(2): 297-308. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1955.tb00600.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tikader, B. K. (1970). Spider fauna of Sikkim. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 64: 1-83. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tikader, B. K. & Biswas, B. (1981). Spider fauna of Calcutta and vicinity: Part-I. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 30: 1-149. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2022-07-04 New taxonomic reference entry Caleb & Wijesinghe, 2022 n/a
2022-07-04 Species distribution update Caleb & Wijesinghe, 2022 n/a (Old value)
2022-07-04 Species synonymy Caleb & Wijesinghe, 2022 Oxyopes ratnae synonymized with Oxyopes hindostanicus
2022-07-04 Species synonymy Caleb & Wijesinghe, 2022 Oxyopes pankaji synonymized with Oxyopes hindostanicus
2022-07-04 Species synonymy Caleb & Wijesinghe, 2022 Oxyopes nilgiricus synonymized with Oxyopes hindostanicus
2020-05-18 New taxonomic reference entry Caleb, 2020b n/a