Zoosystematics and Evolution (Feb 2023)

Two new Stenaelurillus species (Araneae, Salticidae, Aelurillina) from Western Ghats, India

  • Puthoor Pattammal Sudhin,
  • Souvik Sen,
  • John T. D. Caleb

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.99.97985
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 99, no. 1
pp. 123 – 133

Abstract

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Two new species – Stenaelurillus megamalai sp. nov. (♂♀) from the colorful group and Stenaelurillus neyyar sp. nov. (♂♀) from the black and white group – are described from the southern Western Ghats of India. Detailed morphological descriptions, illustrations, as well as the distribution maps are provided. New distributional data for three other species, Stenaelurillus albus Sebastian, Sankaran, Malamel & Joseph, 2015, S. arambagensis (Biswas & Biswas, 1992) and S. wandae Logunov, 2020 are also provided.