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Genus: Oxyopes Latreille, 1804 | Family: Oxyopidae Thorell, 1869

Oxyopes bharatae Gajbe, 1999

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037073

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Described:

Distribution: Pakistan, India

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Holotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India f (5502/18) - (Gajbe, 1999)

Taxonomic References

Oxyopes bharatae Gajbe, 1999: 44, f. 27-30 (Df) Original description

Oxyopes bharatae Gajbe, 2008c: 41, f. 76-79 (f)

Oxyopes bharatae Malik, Das & Siliwal, 2016a: 474, pl. 1A-D, 2A-B (Dm, f)

Oxyopes bharatae Jaffry, Butt & Zahra, 2025: 2084, f. 5A-F (m)

References

Gajbe, U. A. (1999). Studies on some spiders of the family Oxyopidae (Araneae: Arachnida) from India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 97(3): 31-79. -- Show included taxa

Gajbe, U. A. (2008c). Fauna of India and the adjacent countries: Spider (Arachnida: Araneae: Oxyopidae). Zoological Survey of India Kolkata 3, 1-117. -- Show included taxa

Jaffry, K. H., Butt, A. & Zahra, K. (2025). A new species of Prochora Simon, 1886 (Araneae: Miturgidae) and some new records of superfamily Lycosoidea (Araneae) from Margalla Hills National Park, Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 57(5): 2079-2087. doi: 10.17582/journal.pjz/20220525050526 -- Show included taxa

Malik, S., Das, S. K. & Siliwal, M. (2016a). First description of male lynx spider Oxyopes bharatae Gajbe, 1999 (Araneae: Oxyopidae). Munis Entomology and Zoology 11(2): 473-476. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2025-07-22	New taxonomic reference entry	Jaffry, Butt & Zahra, 2025
2025-07-22	Species distribution update	Jaffry, Butt & Zahra, 2025	Old value
2016-06-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Malik, Das & Siliwal, 2016a
2016-06-10	First description of male	Malik, Das & Siliwal, 2016a	Old value