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Genus: Epocilla Thorell, 1887 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Epocilla calcarata Karsch, 1880

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033206

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Described:

Distribution: India, China to Indonesia (Sulawesi). Introduced to Seychelles, USA (Hawaii)

External Resources*: Salticidae Database Prószyński (2016) | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India f of Marpissa kalapani - (Caleb et al., 2021)
Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) m (2999) -

Taxonomic References

Plexippus calcaratus Karsch, 1880c: 398 (Dm) Original description

Goajara crassipes Peckham & Peckham, 1907: 616 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055068]

Plexippus calcaratus Roewer, 1955c: 1634 (nicht zu deuten = nomen dubium)

Marpissa kalapani Tikader, 1977a: 200, f. 23A-B (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034469]

Epocilla rufa Wesołowska, 1981a: 52, f. 22-31 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055069]

Epocilla calcarata Żabka, 1985: 217, f. 132-148 (mf, T from Plexippus, S of Epocilla rufa and Goajara crassipes)

Epocilla calcarata Feng, 1990: 218, f. 193.1-6 (mf)

Epocilla calcarata Chen & Zhang, 1991: 315, f. 335.1-6 (m)

Epocilla calcarata Peng et al., 1993: 51, f. 129-137 (mf)

Epocilla calcarata Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 509, f. 292H-I, 325D-E (mf)

Epocilla calcarata Saaristo, 2002: 25, f. 70-75 (mf)

Epocilla calcarata Saaristo, 2010: 181, f. 27.31-36 (mf)

Epocilla calcarata Yin et al., 2012: 1354, f. 733a-i (mf)

Epocilla calcarata Peng, 2020: 98, f. 53a-i (mf)

Epocilla calcarata Caleb et al., 2021: 227, f. 30-34 (f, S of Marpissa kalapani)

References

Caleb, J. T. D., Sanap, R. V., Prajapati, D. A. & Bambhaniya, P. (2021). Taxonomic notes on two jumping spider species of the genus Epocilla Thorell, 1887 (Araneae: Salticidae: Chrysillini) from India and Pakistan. Arthropoda Selecta 30(2): 221-229. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.30.2.09 -- Show included taxa

Chen, Z. F. & Zhang, Z. H. (1991). Fauna of Zhejiang: Araneida. Zhejiang Science and Technology Publishing House, Hangzhou, 356 pp. -- Show included taxa

Feng, Z. Q. (1990). Spiders of China in colour. Hunan Science and Technology Publishing House, 256 pp. -- Show included taxa

Karsch, F. (1880c). Arachnologische Blätter (Decas I). Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften, Dritte Folge 5: 373-409, pl. 12. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1907). The Attidae of Borneo. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 15(2): 603-653. -- Show included taxa

Peng, X. J., Xie, L. P., Xiao, X. Q. & Yin, C. M. (1993). Salticids in China (Arachnida: Araneae). Hunan Normal University Press, 270 pp. -- Show included taxa

Peng, X. J. (2020). Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 53, Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae. Science Press, Beijing, 612 pp. -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1955c). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1751 pp. -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. (2002). New species and interesting new records of spiders from Seychelles (Arachnida, Araneaea [sic]). Phelsuma 10(suppl. A): 1-31. -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. (2010). Araneae. In: Gerlach, J. & Marusik, Y. M. (eds.) Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, pp. 8-306. -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa

Tikader, B. K. (1977a). Studies on spider fauna of Andaman and Nicobar islands, Indian Ocean. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 72: 153-212. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (1981a). Salticidae (Aranei) from North Korea, China and Mongolia. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 36: 45-83. -- Show included taxa

Yin, C. M., Peng, X. J., Yan, H. M., Bao, Y. H., Xu, X., Tang, G., Zhou, Q. S. & Liu, P. (2012). Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China. Hunan Science and Technology Press Changsha, 1590 pp. -- Show included taxa

Żabka, M. (1985). Systematic and zoogeographic study on the family Salticidae (Araneae) from Viet-Nam. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 39: 197-485. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Prószyński, J. (2016). Monograph of Salticidae (Araneae) of the World 1995-2015. Part II. Global Species Database of Salticidae (Araneae). Version October 30th, 2016, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2021-06-27	New taxonomic reference entry	Caleb et al., 2021
2021-06-27	Species synonymy	Caleb et al., 2021	Epocilla kalapani synonymized with Epocilla calcarata
2020-07-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Peng, 2020