Belisana ratnapura Huber 2005
Creators: name: Huber, Bernhard A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Pholcidae
Belisana
Belisana ratnapura

description: Belisana ratnapura Huber, 2005
Figs 8–9, 34–35, 40–41
Belisana ratnapura Huber, 2005: 108, figs 602–616 (♂ ♀, Sri Lanka).
Notes. The unidentified locality “Kollawa” in Huber (2005) is a misspelling of Kottawa (see additional material from same collecting event below). The correct coordinates for “Kannaliya” (Kanneliya) are 6.25°N, 80.34°E (not 6°02’N, 80°13’E as in Huber 2005).
Diagnosis. Easily distinguished from most congeners by long retrolateral process (‘flap’) of procursus pointing in proximal-ventral direction and curved at tip (Figs 34–-35); from very similar B. gowindahela by wider procursus with different shape of prolateral distal sclerite (compare Figs 32–35), by smaller distance between distal male cheliceral apophyses (15 µm versus ~80 µm in B. gowindahela; compare fig. 604 in Huber 2005 with Fig. 31 herein), and by epigynum with posterior extension and with pockets closer together (10–15 µm versus ~60 µm in B. gowindahela; compare Figs 38–41).
New records. SRI LANKA: 6♂ 9♀, ZFMK (Ar 20015), Sabaragamuwa Province, between Ratnapura and Mapalena Ella (6.762°N, 80.428°E), 100 m a.s.l., 19.iii.2017 (B.A. Huber). 1♂ 1♀, NMSL, 12♂ 11♀ 2 juvs, ZFMK (Ar 20016), and 2♂ 1♀ in pure ethanol, ZFMK (SL163), Sabaragamuwa Province, Mapalena Ella (6.774°N, 80.460°E), 270 m a.s.l., forest below waterfall, 19.iii.2017 (B.A. Huber). ~ 19♂ 20♀, ZFMK (Ar 5195– 96), Sabaragamuwa Province, Ratnapura District, Gilimale Forest Reserve [~ 6.76°N, 80.45°E], 11.ii.2007 (S.P. Benjamin, Z. Jaleel). 2♂ 5♀, ZFMK (Ar 20017), and 2♂ 1♀ in pure ethanol, ZFMK (SL104), Sabaragamuwa Province, near Kitulgala (6.985°N, 80.430°E), 170 m a.s.l., 7.iii.2017 (B.A. Huber). 5♂ 4♀, ZFMK (Ar 5192), Sabaragamuwa Province, Kegalle District, Kitulgala, degraded lowland rainforest, 14.ii.2007 (Z. Jaleel). 3♂ 1♀, ZFMK (Ar 20018), and 1♀ in pure ethanol, ZFMK (SL101), Sabaragamuwa Province, outside of Belilena Cave near Kitulgala (7.003°N, 80.436°E), 370 m a.s.l., 7.iii.2017 (B.A. Huber). 5♂ 3♀, ZFMK (Ar 20019), and 2♂ 3♀ in pure ethanol, ZFMK (SL99), Western Province, Mitirigala Forest (6.997°N, 80.175°E), 70 m a.s.l., 6.iii.2017 (B.A. Huber). 3♂ 6♀ 3 juvs, ZFMK (Ar 20020), and 1♂ 1♀ in pure ethanol, ZFMK (SL169), Western Province, Labugama Forest (6.846°N, 80.175°E), 150 m a.s.l., 20.iii.2017 (B.A. Huber). 2♂ 3♀, ZFMK (Ar 5193), Western Province, Kalutara District, Ingiriya, Bodhinagala Forest Reserve [6.725°N, 80.155°E], 10.ii.2007 (S.P. Benjamin, Z. Jaleel). 3♂, ZFMK (Ar 20021), Western Province, above Pelawatta-Tinniyawala road (6.404°N, 80.283°E), 150 m a.s.l., 18.iii.2017 (B.A. Huber). 5♂ 3♀, ZFMK (Ar 20022), and 2♀ in pure ethanol, ZFMK (SL160), Southern Province, Kottawa Forest (6.097°N, 80.308°E), 60 m a.s.l., 17.iii.2017 (B.A. Huber). 2♂ 4♀, RMNH, Kottawa, wet evergreen forest, 15.x.1982 (F. Wanless). 3♀ in pure ethanol, ZFMK (Benj 39), Southern Province, Galle District, Kottawa, Kombala-Kottawa Forest Reserve (6.098°N, 80.314°E), 60 m a.s.l., 19.v.2010 (S.P. Benjamin, S. Batuwita). 3♂ 9♀, ZFMK (Ar 20023), and 1♂ 1♀ 1 juv. in pure ethanol, ZFMK (SL157), Southern Province, Viharekele Forest (6.099°N, 80.594°E), 120 m a.s.l., 17.iii.2017 (B.A. Huber).
Natural history. The webs of this species were identical to those of B. gowindahela (see above).
Distribution. Widely distributed in southwestern Sri Lanka, apparently excluding high elevation areas (Fig. 221).
description: Published as part of Huber, Bernhard A., 2019, The pholcid spiders of Sri Lanka (Araneae: Pholcidae), pp. 1-57 in Zootaxa 4550 (1) on pages 9-10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4550.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2625030