A new species of the cob web spider genus Theridion from India (Araneae: Theridiidae)

Abstract

A new species – Theridion odisha sp.n. – is described from Odisha state, India. An updated checklist of Theridion species known from India with taxonomic remarks is enlisted and mapped. Two new combinations are also proposed, Nihonhimea indicum (Tikader, 1977) comb.n., ex Theridion and Nihonhimea tikaderi (Patel, 1973) comb.n., ex Theridion. Nihonhimea indicum (Tikader, 1977) is considered a senior synonym of Parasteatoda brookesiana (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995).

Faunal diversity of Theridiidae (Araneomorphae: Araneae: Arachnida) in India: An updated checklist

“…Theridion sadani by Monga and Singh (1989) from Jammu and Kashmir. In the present century, eight species of Theridiidae were described from India, one species each from Assam (Meotipa ultapani Basumatary and Brahma, 2019), Gujarat (Meotipa sahyadri Kulkarni et al, 2017), Himachal Pradesh (Episinus pentagonalis Chakrabarti, 2013), Karnataka (Meotipa multuma Murthappa et al, 2017), Kerala (Achaearanea triangularis (Patel, 2005)); Maharashtra (Stemmops satpudaensis Rajoria, 2015) and Odisha (Theridion odisha Prasad et al, 2019).…”

“…Theridion manjithar Tikader, 1970*  Assam (Singh et al, 2012(Singh et al, , 2013  Gujarat (Tikader, 1970;Patel, 1973;Patel and Pillai, 1988;Siliwal et al, 2003a;Kumar and Yashkamal, 2011)  Karnataka (Nautiyal et al, 2017;Prashanthakumara and Venkateshwarlu, 2017)  Kerala (Patel, 2003a;Sunil Jose et al, 2008;Ambily and Antony, 2016;Rajeevan et al, 2019)  Maharashtra (Meshram, 2011;Vairale & Wagh, 2021)  Sikkim (Tikader, 1970;Patel, 1973)  Tamil Nadu (Karthikeyani, 2013;Dharmaraj et al, 2018)  Uttar Pradesh (Uniyal and Hore, 2009) 147. Theridion melanostictum O. Pickard-Cambridg, 1876  Gujarat [Dal & Trivedi, 2020]  Maharashtra (Bodkhe et al, 2015;Lanka et al, 2017)  Rajasthan (Prasad et al, 2019) Elsewhere: Canada, Central Asia, China, Egypt, Galapagos Is., Japan, Macaronesia, Mediterranean, Poland, Society Is., USA 148. Theridion nilgherinum Simon, 1905*  Tamil Nadu (Simon, 1905;Sherriffs, 1927;Karthikeyani et al, 2017) Prasad et al, 2019*  Odisha (Prasad et al, 2019…”

“…Theridion melanostictum O. Pickard-Cambridg, 1876  Gujarat [Dal & Trivedi, 2020]  Maharashtra (Bodkhe et al, 2015;Lanka et al, 2017)  Rajasthan (Prasad et al, 2019) Elsewhere: Canada, Central Asia, China, Egypt, Galapagos Is., Japan, Macaronesia, Mediterranean, Poland, Society Is., USA 148. Theridion nilgherinum Simon, 1905*  Tamil Nadu (Simon, 1905;Sherriffs, 1927;Karthikeyani et al, 2017) Prasad et al, 2019*  Odisha (Prasad et al, 2019…”

“…Phylarcus brevis (Pickard-Cambridge, 1870); Phycus brevis Pickard-Cambridge, 1870  Puducherry (Simon, 1905) Patel et al, 1987*  Gujarat (Patel et al, 1987Patel and Pillai, 1988) 3. Theridion piligerum Frauenfeld, 1867  Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Frauenfeld, 1867;Monga and Singh, 1989;Prasad et al, 2019)…”

An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Rajasthan, India

“…Thereafter, several species of spiders were described and recorded from different districts of Journal of Animal Diversity (2022) | © Lorestan University Press Rajasthan in the twentieth century. Studies have continued during the current century by several araneologists such as Dobroruka (2004), Sivaperuman and Rathore (2004;2009), Chauhan et al (2009), Sen et al (2009), Almeida-Silva et al (2010), Tripathi et al (2010, Moradmand and Jäger (2012), Saini et al (2012a;, Lawania et al (2013), Kaur et al (2014), Bhathal et al (1990, Lawania and Trigunayat (2015), Saha et al (2015), , Kumari et al (2016;), Patil et al (2016, Caleb et al (2017), Lawania and Mathur (2017), Jangid et al (2019), Malhotra et al (2019), Prasad et al (2019), Kashmeera et al (2020), Tripathi et al (20212022), andLogunov et al (2022). These studies have collectively recorded and/or described hundreds of species.…”