Tropizodium viridurbium Prajapati, Murthappa, Sankaran & Sebastian, 2016, sp. n.
Creators: name: Prajapati, Dhruv A.
name: Murthappa, Prashanthakumara S.
name: Sankaran, Pradeep M.
name: Sebastian, Pothalil A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Zodariidae
Tropizodium
Tropizodium viridurbium

description: Tropizodium viridurbium sp. n.
(Figs. 4A, 5A–C, 8A–G)
Type material. Holotype: Female (ADSH 112762 A), INDIA: Gujarat: Gandhinagar, Aranya Park near Palaj, 23°11'42.30"N, 72°40'25.67"E, 77 m alt., 17 June 2015, D. A. Prajapati leg., from ground, by hand.
Diagnosis. T. viridurbium sp. n. is closely related to Tropizodium murphyorum Dankittipakul, Jocqué & Singtripop, 2012, but can be easily differentiated by a median ‘crescent shaped’ sclerotized plate adjacent to the posterior epigynal margin (compare fig. 5B with Dankittipakul et al. 2012a, figs. 7, 12).
Description. Female (holotype, Figs 4A, 8A–E): Prosoma, clypeus, chelicerae, fangs, maxillae, labium, leg segments brownish. Cephalic region square shaped, dark brown with reticulation; thoracic region broad. Clypeal margin provided with long, thick bristles. Chilum absent. Chelicerae with stout dorsal setae; cheliceral margins without teeth; inter-cheliceral triangle small. Sternum pale yellowish, heart shaped, with triangular extensions fitting in coxal concavities. Opisthosoma oval; dorsum and lateral sides black, dorsum with creamy-white striae; venter pale yellowish. Leg segments with thick covering of incised hairs; femora I–III provided with single dorsal spine; tibiae I–IV with single pair of ventral spines; metatarsus I with single pair of ventral spines, II–IV possess several irregularly placed ventral spines (II–6, III–10 and IV–9). Palpal segments brownish; patellae with one prolateral spine, tibiae with two prolateral spines, cymbium/tarsi with four prolateral and one ventral spines. Posterior ventral spines (PVS) present, arranged in single row (Fig. 8D). Body length 4.65. Prosoma length 2.14, width (in the middle) 1.67, height (in the middle) 1.27. Opisthosoma length 2.51, width (in the middle) 2.02, height (in the middle) 2.1. Eye diameter: ALE 0.08. AME 1.59. PLE 0.06. PME 0.08. Eye interdistances: AME–AME 0.11. AME–ALE 0.04. AME–PME 0.06. ALE–PME 0.05. ALE–ALE 0.5. PLE–PLE 0.3. PME–PME 0.48. PME– PLE 0.09. Clypeus height at ALE 0.37, at AME 0.57. Chelicera length 0.59. Measurements of palp and legs. Palp 1.62 [0.57, 0.31, 0.35, 0.39], I 7.19 [1.79, 0.45, 1.49, 2.21, 1.25], II 6.46 [1.7, 0.46, 1.32, 1.96, 1.02], III 6.43 [1.69, 0.47, 1.27, 2.06, 0.94], IV 8.61 [2.38, 0.47, 2.0, 2.66, 1.10]. Leg formula: 4123. Epigyne (Figs. 5A–C, 8F–G): Epigyne simple. Spermathecae nearly globular. Copulatory ducts short, originate posterior to spermathecae (Fig. 5B). Epigynal orifice absent, instead a median ‘crescent shaped’ sclerotized plate closely adhered to the posterior epigynal margin (Figs. 5B, 8G).
Etymology. The specific epithet is an adjective and is derived from the combination of two Latin words: viridis (green) + urbs (city), referring to the nickname of the type locality (Gandhinagar) ‘Green city’. Distribution. Only known from type locality (Fig. 9).
description: Published as part of Prajapati, Dhruv A., Murthappa, Prashanthakumara S., Sankaran, Pradeep M. & Sebastian, Pothalil A., 2016, Two new species of the ant-eating spider genus Tropizodium Jocqué & Churchill, 2005 (Araneae, Zodariidae, Zodariinae) from India, pp. 575-584 in Zootaxa 4061 (5) on pages 579-581, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4061.5.7, http://zenodo.org/record/256907