Pandava shiva Almeida-Silva, Griswold & Brescovit, 2010, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Almeida-Silva, Lina M.
name: Griswold, Charles E.
name: Brescovit, Antonio D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Titanoecidae
Pandava
Pandava shiva

description: Pandava shiva sp. nov.
Fig. 58–83
Type material. Holotype male and paratype female from Rajasthan, Keoladeonati park, India, 3-5.XII.1989, V. and B. Roth, deposited in CAS (CASENT 9032827 and 9032830, respectively). Paratype female from 4 mi Northwest of Kharian (elev. 350m), W Pakistan, 14.XII.1961, E. S. Ross & D. Q. Cavagnaro, deposited in IBSP (156973).
Etymology. The specific epithet is a noun in apposition referring to the Hindu God Shiva, which means the “Auspicious one” in Sanskrit.
Diagnosis. Pandava shiva differs from P. hunanensis in the more anteriorly curved PLT (Figs. 58–60, 70, 72); MLT with enlarged base and hyaline plate with five projections (Figs. 58–60, 70); median apophysis absent (Figs. 61–63) on the male palp; epigynum with short distance between the epigynal rims (Fig. 73) and posterior border of median field pointed (Fig. 73) in the female.
Description. Male (holotype). Coloration: carapace brown to yellowish with cephalic area and chelicerae dark brown. Leg I and femora II–IV brown, other articles pale brown. Abdomen brown. Total length 4.60. Carapace 2.08 long; 1.28 wide; 0.63 high. Clypeus 0.13 high. Abdomen 2.40 long; 1.52 wide. Eye diameters and interdistances: AME 0.08; ALE 0.13; PME 0.10; PLE 0.10; AME–AME 0.10; AME–ALE 0.10; PME– PME 0.13; PME–PLE 0.20; AME–PME 0.11; ALE–PLE 0.06. Chelicerae 1.13 long. Leg measurements: I: femur 2.18/ patella 0.90/ tibia 2.02/ metatarsus 1.68/ tarsus 0.78/ total 7.56; II: 1.88/ 0.78/ 1.75/ 1.10/ 0.73/ 6.23; III: 1.59/ 0.50/ 1.28/ 1.06/ 0.56/ 4.99; IV: 1.78/ 0.65/ 1.55/ 1.63/ 0.58/ 6.18. Leg formula 1243. Leg spination: femur I: p1ap; metatarsus III and IV: p1ap, r1ap. Male tibial crack and distally curved setae absent. Palpal femur stridulatory file with a high density of round granules (Figs. 68–69).
Female (paratype). Coloration: carapace brown. Cephalic area and chelicerae dark brown. Legs I and II brown, III and IV pale brown. Abdomen brown to grayish. Total length 4.85. Carapace 2.16 long; 1.31 wide; 1.10 high. Clypeus 0.12 high. Abdomen 2.76 long; 1.80 wide. Eye diameters and interdistances: AME 0.08; ALE 0.12; PME 0.09; PLE 0.09; AME–AME 0.10; AME–ALE 0.12; PME–PME 0.16; PME–PLE 0.29; AME–PME 0.10; ALE–PLE 0.03. Chelicerae 0.75 long. Leg measurements: I: femur 1.59/ patella 0.72/ tibia 1.41/ metatarsus 1.28/ tarsus 0.66/ total 5.66; II: 1.34/ 0.66/ 1.22/ 0.91/ 0.53/ 4.66; III: 1.28/ 0.59/ 0.94/ 0.84/ 0.48/ 4.14; IV: 1.44/ 0.69/ 1.28/ 0.78/ 0.34/ 4.53. Leg formula 1243. Spines and distally curved setae absent. Epigynum internally with membranous copulatory ducts, a single and elongated spermatheca (Figs. 74–77), junction between copulatory duct and spermatheca enlarged. Giant pore absent, primary pore located in the middle of the spermatheca (Figs. 75–77).
Variation. Length (10 females): total 4.00–6.30; carapace 2.19–2.65; femur I 1.60–2.16. Geographical distribution. Asia: India and Pakistan
Additional material examined. PAKISTAN. West Pakistan, 4 mi northwest Kharian (elev. 350m), 14.XII.1961, E. S. Ross and D. Q. Cavagnaro (CASENT 9032826, 9 Ψ, 2 immatures; IBSP 156974, 2Ψ).
description: Published as part of Almeida-Silva, Lina M., Griswold, Charles E. & Brescovit, Antonio D., 2010, Revision of the Asian spider genus Pandava Lehtinen (Araneae: Titanoecidae): description of five new species and first record of Titanoecidae from Africa, pp. 30-56 in Zootaxa 2630 on pages 43-47, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.276087