Thiania abdominalis Żabka, 1985

Sudhin, Puthoor Pattammal & Sen, Souvik, 2024, The first record of Thiania abdominalis Żabka, 1985 (Araneae: Salticidae) from India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 124 (4), pp. 325-327 : 325-327

Thiania abdominalis Żabka, 1985

Thiania abdominalis Żabka, 1985: 451 , figs 611–615 (description of male); Guo & Zhu, 2010: 93, figs 1a–h (description of female); Yu et al., 2021: 133, figs 2A–G.

Material examined: 4♀♀ (NZC-ZSI-9347/18), India: Meghalaya, East Khasi Hills District, Laitkynsew , 25°25'41.83"N, 91°48'8.55"E, h = 1879 m. 11.vi.2024, Coll. Sudhin P. P.

For a diagnosis of the species, see Logunov (2021) and Asima et al., (2023).

Description: Female (NZC-ZSI-9504/18). ( Figs 1a–d): Colour in alcohol. Measurements: body length 5.14; carapace length 2.31, width 1.82; abdomen length 2.78, width 1.41. Ocular area length 1.04, width at ALE 1.50, width at PME 1.47. Eye diameters: AME 0.39, ALE 0.23, PME 0.07, PLE 0.21. Eye inter-distances:AME–AME 0.10, ALE–ALE 1.01, PLE–PLE 1.22, PME–PLE 0.19, PME–

PME 1.28. Length of chelicera 0.49. Measurement of palp and legs: palp 1.85 [0.68, 0.36, 0.31, 0.50], leg I 4.90 [1.46,

0.68, 1.31, 0.85, 0.60], II 3.80 [1.29, 0.47, 0.96, 0.59, 0.49], III 3.75 [1.16, 0.53, 0.84, 0.77, 0.45], IV 3.89 [1.12, 0.56,

0.97, 0.77, 0.47]. Leg formula: 1423. Carapace flat, light reddish-brown, margins with black lines; eye field dark brown, sparsely covered with long white setae; eye bases black ( Figure 1a). Chelicerae are short, light reddish-brown, promargin with two small teeth, and retromargin with a single tooth. Maxillae and labium are light yellowish-brown with paler tips ( Figure 1b). Sternum pale yellow, covered with brown setae ( Figure 1b). Abdomen oval, creamy yellow, dorsum with wide transverse black bands anteriorly and posteriorly. Spinnerets pale yellow ( Figure 1a). Venter greyish-yellow without prominent markings ( Figure 1b). Epigyne wider than long, with a pair of shallow fossae; copulatory openings laterally oriented; copulatory ducts relatively broad, anteriorly curved, meet at the median line, leading posteriorly and connected to round-shaped spermathecae; fertilization