Laminion gujaratensis Sankaran & Caleb & Sebastian 2020, gen. et comb. nov.
Creators: name: Sankaran, Pradeep M.
name: Caleb, John T. D.
name: Sebastian, Pothalil A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Zodariidae
Laminion
Laminion gujaratensis

description: Laminion gujaratensis (Tikader & Patel, 1975) gen. et comb. nov.
Figs 7–9
Storena gujaratensis Tikader & Patel, 1975: 138, figs 7–11.
Storena gujaratensis – Patel & Reddy 1989: 223.
Suffasia gujaratensis – Solanki et al. 2018: 12131, figs 1–5.
Type material
Holotype
INDIA • ♂; Gujarat, Kheda (= Kaira), Napad; 22°28′47.6″ N, 72°58′36.1″ E; 43 m a.s.l.; 23 Jul. 1972; B.H. Patel leg.; NZC-ZSI, Kolkata (no register number specified).
Supplementary description
Male (holotype; Fig. 7 A–C)
Colour in alcohol: carapace, eye region, clypeus, chelicerae, chilum, sternum orange-brown; fangs brownish; endites, labium, venter opisthosoma straw coloured; leg and pedipalp segments straw coloured with brownish shades; scutum on dorsal opisthosoma brownish, with three pairs of irregular creamy blotches; lateral opisthosoma with dark striations. Fovea vertical, dark. Lateral eyes nearly contiguous. Cheliceral promargin with paired denticles. Chilum unipartite, inverted triangular. Sternum posteriorly bluntly pointed, with coxal and intercoxal extensions. Body length 6.51. Carapace length 3.69, width 2.76. Opisthosoma length 2.82, width 2.09. Eye diameters: ALE 0.13. AME 0.18. PLE 0.12. PME 0.10. Eye interdistances: ALE–AME 0.14. AME–AME 0.04. AME–PME 0.11. PME– PLE 0.32. PME–PME 0.11. Chelicerae length 1.06. Clypeus height at ALEs 0.57, at AMEs 0.72. Chilum length 0.16, width 0.32. Measurements of pedipalp and legs. Pedipalp 3.26 [1.14, 0.34, 0.25, 1.53], I 7.78 [2.11, 0.85, 1.87, 1.54, 1.41], II (right) 7.09 [1.95, 0.91, 1.54, 1.54, 1.15], III (right) 7.33 [1.96, 0.98, 1.48, 1.86, 1.05], IV 8.65 [2.65, 0.73, 2.31, 1.94, 1.02]. Leg formula: 4132. Pedipalp as in Fig. 8 A–G.
Female
Unknown.
Justfication of the transfer
Solanki et al. (2018) recently transferred S. gujaratensis to Suffasia based on one fresh male specimen collected in Gujarat. The examination of the type material of S. gujaratensis revealed that their transfer is wrong and this species in fact belongs to Laminion gen. nov. as it possesses a dorsal apophysis on patella, a huge prominent cymbial retrolateral flange, cymbial retro-basal processes, long, filiform embolus, lateral extensions of median apophysis and retrolateral processes of conductor (Fig. 8B, D–G). Thus its transfer to Laminion gen. nov. is confirmed.
Remarks
The ZSI collection has one glass tube for this species, which is labeled as “ holotype ” (no register number) containing one male specimen in good condition. Its left pedipalp found removed and kept in the same tube.
description: Published as part of Sankaran, Pradeep M., Caleb, John T. D. & Sebastian, Pothalil A., 2020, A review of the Indian species formerly assigned to the genus Storena Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae: Zodariidae) with the description of a new genus, pp. 1-23 in European Journal of Taxonomy 707 on pages 13-16, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.707, http://zenodo.org/record/4011010