Tylorida striata  1877
Creators: name: Sankaran, Pradeep M.
name: Malamel, Jobi J.
name: Joseph, Mathew M.
name: Sebastian, Pothalil A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Tetragnathidae
Tylorida
Tylorida striata

description: Tylorida striata (Thorell, 1877)
(Figs 1D, 2B, 7D–F, 12F–G, 13A–F, 14A–G)
Meta striata Thorell, 1877: 427 (Description of female). Hasselt, 1882: 25 (Description of male). Meta stellimicans Simon, 1885: 449 (Description of female).
Argyroepeira bigibba Thorell, 1887: 140 (Description of female juvenile).
Argyroepeira striata Thorell, 1877: 142. Workman & Workman, 1894: 19, plates 19–19a (Brief somatic description and description and illustration of web; illustration of male and female).
Tylorida stellimicans Simon, 1894:737.
Tylorida striata Simon, 1894: 737, fig. 809 (Illustration of male).
[See World Spider Catalog (2017) for complete list of citations].
Linyphia nicobarensis Tikader, 1977: 166, fig. 4A–B (Description and illustration of female [Holotype female (without register number) from INDIA: Nicobar: Kamorta Island; B. K. Tikader leg., 22-03-1970, deposited in ZSI, Kolkata), NOT EXAMINED. Sen et al., 2015: 96, figs 546–551, plate 20 (Not examined the holotype; description and illustration of female based on fresh materials).
Tylorida nicobarensis Breitling, 2015: 5 (Not examined the holotype; transfer of female from Linyphia). New Synonymy.
Material examined. INDIA: Kerala: Alappuzha, Pathiramanal Island (9o37'07.11''N, 76o23'04.95''E), 0 m alt., 24 September 2015, M. J. Jobi & Jimmy Paul leg., from web, by hand: 2 females (ADSH1004511). Alappuzha, Perumbalam, 9o50'54.13''N, 76o21'39.00''E, 10 m alt., 30 November 2015, M. J. Jobi & Jimmy Paul leg., from web, by hand: 1 female (ADSH1004512). Ernakulam, Thalacode, 10o03'03.22''N, 76o44'27.12''E, 60 m alt., 25 December 2015, Aswathy leg., from web, by hand: 1 male, 12 females, 2 juveniles (ADSH1004513).
Note. Like T. ventralis, the male I and II tibiae, metatarsi and tarsi of T. striata lack ventral cone-like macrosetae (Fig. 7D–F).
Variation. Female (n=15): Body length 3.75–4.97.
Justification of the synonymy. Tikader (1977) described L. nicobarensis based on a single female specimen collected from the Kamorta Island in the Nicobar district of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Breitling (2015) transferred this species to Tylorida based on original description and suggested a possible synonymy of this species with T. striata. Even though the epigynum illustrated for this species is less informative due to its high schematic nature, other somatic features provided for this species are similar to the diagnostic features for T. striata, which also was described from Nicobar Islands, from a location of less than 30 km away from the type locality of the former: body colouration and patterning, size and shape of abdomen and paired tubercles on the apex of abdomen (Tikader 1977: fig. 4A–B; herein Fig. 14G). Based on these observations, we consider T. nicobarensis a junior synonym of T. striata.
description: Published as part of Sankaran, Pradeep M., Malamel, Jobi J., Joseph, Mathew M. & Sebastian, Pothalil A., 2017, On the genus Tylorida Simon, 1894 with the first record of the genus Atelidea Simon, 1895 from India (Araneae: Tetragnathidae, Leucauginae), pp. 294-326 in Zootaxa 4353 (2) on pages 308-310, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4353.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/1065166