Epidius bazarus Tikader 1970, new combination
Creators: name: Tang, Guo
name: Yin, Changmin
name: Peng, Xianjin
name: Griswold, Charles
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Thomisidae
Epidius
Epidius bazarus

description: <i>Epidius bazarus</i> (Tikader, 1970), new combination (Figs. 2 A–F, 7) <i>Platythomisus bazarus</i> Tikader, 1970: 48, Fig. 27a-c; Tikader, 1971: 65, Fig. 17M–P; 1980: 171, Figs. 237–239. (type specimens collected from West Sikkim, India and deposited in IZA, India, inaccessible; not examined) <i>Material examined.</i> 1 female (HNU-Tang 2003102801), Daxinzai Village (24°32'N 98°24'E), 1,219 m, Wuhe Township, Tengchong County, Yunnan Province, China, coll. G. Tang, 28 Oct.2003. 1 female (CaAS-19611021), Lataguri, 110 m, West Bengal, India, coll. E. Ross, 21 May 1961. <b> <i>Diagnosis</i>. –</b> The species can be easily separated from <i>E. gongi</i> (Song &amp; Kim, 1992) by: female with larger body size: 7.36–7.62 (6.00– 6.60 in <i>E. gongi</i>); copulatory ducts curved and tube-shaped (short and straight in <i>E. gongi</i>); spermathecae small and spherical (spermathecae with 2 chambers in <i>E. gongi</i>). <b> <i>Description</i>. – Female.</b> Total length: 7.36–7.62. The specimen of total length 7.62 measured: carapace 3.47 long, 3.14 wide; abdomen 4.58 long, 2.76 wide. Cephalothorax: Carapace slightly raised on the median, light yellow, without markings. Cervical grooves, radial grooves and fovea indistinct. Eye area gray, compact, eye tubercles grayish-black, small, eye sizes and interdistances: ALE 0.17, PLE 0.16, AME 0.06, PME 0.14; AME-AME 0.17, AME-ALE 0.12, PME-PME 0.28, PME-PLE 0.20, MOA length 0.43 with front width 0.30 and back width 0.52. Sternum pale yellow. Chelicerae, gnathocoxae, labium yellow. Leg femora yellow, metatarsi and tarsi yellowish-brown. Leg measurements: I 19.20 (6.00, 7.20, 4.00, 2.00), II 18.60 (5.80, 7.20, 3.80, 1.80), III 9.50 (2.90, 3.80, 1.80, 1.00), IV 10.00 (3.00, 4.00, 2.00, 1.00); formula 1, 2, 4, 3. Legs light yellow. Spination: femur: I dorsal, weak spine: 0-0-1-0-0, II–IV 0-1-0-0-1, prolateral (weak) 0-1-2-1-1 (right), 1-1-2-1-1 (left); tibiae: prolateral I–IV 0-0-1-1, ventral I-II 2-2-2-2-2, III–IV 2-2-2, metatarsus I–II prolateral 1-0-0-1ap, ventral 2-2-2-2; III–IV prolateral 1-1-1ap, III ventral 0-2-2. Abdomen elongate oval, dorsum with broken silvery white spots; cardiac pattern gray, 2 pairs of muscular depressions visible; laterally silvery white; venter light yellow. Epigyne simple, atrium depressed; with a pair of sclerotized plates posteriorly; copulatory ducts curved in n-shaped; spermathecae spherical. <b> <i>Distribution</i>. –</b> China (Tengchong County of Yunnan), India. <b> <i>Remarks</i>. –</b> The type specimen of <i>Platythomisus bazarus</i> was kept in ZSI and is unavailable for study by foreign arachnologists (Lehtinen, 2004: 178). However, the locality of one of our specimens (Lataguri, West Bengal, India) is adjacent to that of <i>Platythomisus bazarus</i> (Nayabazar, West Sikkim, India). After comparing the descriptions and figures of <i>Platythomisus bazarus</i> Tikader, 1970, and those of our specimens (from India, China), it was found that they should be the same species. Both of our specimens bear the following diagnostic characters of the genus <i>Epidius</i>: tibiae and metatarsi of legs I &amp; II slender with thick ventral spines, epigyne with an atrium and a pairs of posterior sclerotized plates, eye arrangement also as same as that of <i>Epidius</i>. Because of those, <i>Platythomisus bazarus</i> should be transferred to the genus <i>Epidius</i> as <i>Epidius bazarus</i> (Tikader, 1970), new combination.
description: Published as part of <i>Tang, Guo, Yin, Changmin, Peng, Xianjin &amp; Griswold, Charles, 2009, Six Crab Spiders Of The Subfamily Stephanopinae From Southeast Asia (Araneae: Thomisidae), pp. 39-50 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57 (1)</i> on page 42, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4508210
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