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Genus: Poecilochroa Westring, 1874 | Family: Gnaphosidae Banks, 1892

Poecilochroa tridotus Caleb & Mathai, 2013

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:046540

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Described:

Distribution: India

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Holotype: Southern Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Chennai (SRC-ZSI/ZSIC), India f (I/SP 17) - (Caleb, 2020b)

Taxonomic References

Poecilochroa tridotus Caleb & Mathai, 2013: 2, f. 1a-f (Df) Original description

Poecilochroa tridotus Sankaran & Caleb, 2025: 137, f. 12-14 (f)

References

Caleb, J. T. D. & Mathai, M. T. (2013). New species of Poecilochroa Westring and Zelotes Gistel (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Tamil Nadu, India. Indian Journal of Arachnology 2(2): 1-6. -- Show included taxa

Sankaran, P. M. & Caleb, J. T. D. (2025). On the taxonomic validity of Indian ground spiders: VI. Genera Ladissa Simon, 1907, Melicymnis Simon, 1885, and Poecilochroa Westring, 1874 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Zootaxa 5673(1): 132-142. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5673.1.9 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-08-04	New taxonomic reference entry	Sankaran & Caleb, 2025