Indothele dumicola ( Pocock, 1900 )

Tripathi, Rishikesh, Kadam, Gautam, Sherwood, Danniella & Sudhikumar, Ambalaparambil Vasu, 2025, Revision of Indian Ischnothelidae (Arachnida: Araneae) and descriptions of two new species of Indothele Coyle, 1995, European Journal of Taxonomy 981 (1), pp. 189-212 : 201-204

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scientific name	Indothele dumicola ( Pocock, 1900 )
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Treatment

Indothele dumicola ( Pocock, 1900) View in CoL

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Ischnothele dumicola Pocock, 1900: 171 , fig. 55 (♂ ♀).

Indothele dumicola View in CoL – Coyle 1995: 111, figs 347–361 (transfer ♂ ♀ from Ischnothele View in CoL ). ‘ Indothele dumicola View in CoL ’ – Sen et al. 2015: 18, plate 12, fig. 15–22 (♀) (misidentification = Macrothele sp. ).

Type material examined

Lectotype

INDIA • ♂; Poona (=Pune), Maharashtra; 21 Nov. 1899; Wroughton leg.; in tube 1 together with 2 female lectotypes; BMNH.

Paralectotypes

INDIA • 2 ♀♀; same data as for lectotype; one spermathecae dissected; in tube 1 with the male lectotype; BMNH • 2 ♀♀; same data as for lectotype; both spermathecae dissected; tube 2; BMNH • 36 ♀♀;same data as for lectotype, undissected; tube 3; BMNH .

Records from India

Maharashtra ( Coyle 1995; this work: Fig. 14 View Fig ).

Distribution

Known only from India (World Spider Catalog 2024).

Remarks

This species was adequately redescribed by Coyle (1995), we present the first photomicrographs of the species ( Figs 9–10 View Fig View Fig ). The specimen depicted by Sen et al. (2015) is clearly a specimen of Macrothele .