Oxytate elongata
Creators: name: Sudhin, Puthoor Pattammal
name: Sen, Souvik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Thomisidae
Oxytate
Oxytate elongata

description: Oxytate elongata (Tikader, 1980)
Figs 2A–I, 5D–E, 7
Dieta elongata Tikader, 1980: 234, figs 306–307 (description and illustrations of female). Gajbe 2007: 453, figs 62–63 (description and illustrations of female).
Type material. Holotype female from INDIA: Maharashtra: Poona, Shivajinagar, 12 August 1974, leg. M.S. Malhotra (NZC-ZSI, Kolkata, Regd. No. 4576/18), examined.
Other material examined. 1♀ from INDIA: Kerala: Thiruvananthapuram, Neyyar Wildlife Sanctuary (8°32’02”N 77°09’02”E), 82 m, 16 January 2019, leg. P. M. Sureshan (NZC-ZSI-8092/18).
Diagnosis. The female copulatory organ of O. elongata is most similar to that of O. greenae (Tikader, 1980), from which it can be easily distinguished by the anteriorly placed hood (antero-medially in O. greenae), long copulatory duct (relatively shorter in O. greenae), and kidney-shaped spermathecae (more elongated in O. greenae) (Figs 1G–H, 2C–D, G–H, 5B–E).
Redescription. Female (NZC-ZSI-8092/18) (Figs 2A–I, 5D–E): Measurements: Body length 7.31. Carapace length 2.21, width 2.11. Abdomen length 5.03, width 1.15. Eye diameter: ALE 0.09, AME 0.05, PLE 0.09, PME 0.06. Eye interdistances: AME–AME 0.13, ALE–AME 0.12, PME–PME 0.08, PLE–PME 0.30, ALE–PLE 0.21, AME–PME 0.20, ALE–ALE 0.45, PLE–PLE 0.75, AME–PLE 0.40, ALE–PME 0.18. Clypeus height 0.28. Length of chelicerae 0.61. Measurements of legs: I 10.70 [3.28, 1.12, 3.17, 2.15, 0.98], II 10.45 [3.06, 1.08, 3.03, 2.23, 0.95], III 5.21 [1.47, 0.47, 1.55, 1.14, 0.58], IV 4.97 [1.84, 0.44, 1.22, 0.93, 0.54]. Leg formula: 1234. Spination. Legs: femur I pl 6 rl 3 do 3 plv 2, II pl 5 rl 3 do 3, III pl 1 rl 3 do 2, IV pl 2 rl 1 do 1; patella I–II pl 1 rl 1 do 1, III–IV do 2; tibia I–II pl 2 rl 2 do 1 plv 4 rlv 4, III pl 2 rl 1 do 2, IV pl 2; metatarsus I–II pl 2 rl 2 plv 3 rlv 3, III pl 2 rl 1 rlv 1, IV pl 2 rl 2 plv 1 rlv 1; tarsus I–IV spineless. Description based on newly collected material. Carapace greenish white, with dark brown markings (Fig. 2A). Eyes located on white tubercles (Fig. 2A). Clypeus and chelicerae greenish white. Endites, labium and sternum dull white (Fig. 2B). Abdomen covered with fine hairs, dorsum light greenish white with dark brown markings (Fig. 2A), posterior region with regular transverse rows of spines (Fig. 2A); venter light greenish white, without any markings (Fig. 2B). Epigyne as shown in Figs 2C–D, G–H, 5D–E: epigyne with deeply divided anterior hood (Figs 2C, G); copulatory openings funnel-like, oriented antero-medially, located almost in the middle region of the epigyne (Figs 2C, G, 5D); copulatory duct, long, anterior part sclerotized, median part looped inwards, posterior part leading forward and connected to the anterior part of spermathecae (Figs 2C–D, G–H, 5D–E); spermathecae kidney-shaped, and widely separated from each other (Figs 2D, H, 5E).
Male. Unknown.
Distribution. India: Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Kerala (new locality record) (Tikader, 1980; Gajbe, 2007; present data) (Fig. 7).
description: Published as part of Sudhin, Puthoor Pattammal & Sen, Souvik, 2023, Taxonomic notes on the crab spider genus Oxytate L. Koch, 1878 (Araneae: Thomisidae) from India, pp. 549-558 in Zootaxa 5315 (6) on page 551, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5315.6.2, http://zenodo.org/record/8142462