Taxon details

Family: Salticidae / Genus: Epocilla

Epocilla aura (Dyal, 1935)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2021-06-27
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036532]
  • Distribution: Pakistan, India
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; f (3095/18) of Marpissa tigrina (Caleb et al., 2021)
  • Holotype: Beaty Biodiversity Museum (BBM), Spencer Entomological Museum of the University of British Columbia (UBC–SEM), Vancouver, Canada; m of Epocilla pakhtunkhwa (Caleb et al., 2021)
  • Paratype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; 4f (3100/18) of Marpissa tigrina (Caleb et al., 2021)
  • Syntype: ; 1m 1f (depository unknown) (Caleb et al., 2021)
Taxonomic references
Thiania aura Dyal, 1935: 230, pl. 17, f. 177 (Dmf).
Marpissa tigrina Tikader, 1965e: 261, f. 1a-b (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034494].
Marpissa tigrina Tikader & Biswas, 1981: 97, f. 177-178 (f).
Epocilla pakhtunkhwa Ali & Maddison, in Ali et al., 2018: 4, f. 1-4 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050520].
Epocilla aura Caleb et al., 2021: 223, f. 1-10, 12-29 (mf, T from Thiania, S of Epocilla pakhtunkhwa and Marpissa tigrina).
References

Ali, P. A., Maddison, W. P., Zahid, M. & Butt, A. (2018). New chrysilline and aelurilline jumping spiders from Pakistan (Araneae, Salticidae). ZooKeys 783: 1-15. doi:10.3897/zookeys.783.21985 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Caleb, J. T. D., Sanap, R. V., Prajapati, D. A. & Bambhaniya, P. (2021). Taxonomic notes on two jumping spider species of the genus Epocilla Thorell, 1887 (Araneae: Salticidae: Chrysillini) from India and Pakistan. Arthropoda Selecta 30(2): 221-229. doi:10.15298/arthsel.30.2.09 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

Tikader, B. K. (1965e). A new species of spider of genus Marpissa (Salticidae) from India. Science and Culture 31: 261-262. 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

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Metzner, H. (2019). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2016). Monograph of Salticidae (Araneae) of the World 1995-2015. Part II. Global Species Database of Salticidae (Araneae). Version October 30th, 2016, online at http://www.salticidae.pl. download pdf

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2021-06-27 Species synonymy Caleb et al., 2021 Epocilla pakhtunkhwa synonymized with Epocilla aura
2021-06-27 Species synonymy Caleb et al., 2021 Epocilla tigrina synonymized with Epocilla aura
2021-06-27 New taxonomic reference entry Caleb et al., 2021 n/a
2021-06-27 Species transferred to new genus Caleb et al., 2021 Species transferred from Thiania to Epocilla
2021-06-27 Species distribution update Caleb et al., 2021 n/a (Old value)