Plator indicus Simon, 1897

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Described:

Distribution: India, China

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Taxonomic References
Plator indicus Simon, 1897g: 256 (Dm) Original description
Plator ixodinus Pocock, 1899d: 753 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:052309]
Plator indicus Pocock, 1900a: 272, f. 89 (mf, S of Plator ixodinus)
Plator pandeae Tikader, 1969c: 253, f. 4-7 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026200]
Plator indicus Platnick, 1976e: 3 (S of Plator ixodinus is doubful)
Plator pandeae Hu & Li, 1987a: 360, f. 30.1-4, 31.1-4 (Dmf)
Plator pandeae Hu, 2001: 279, f. 160.1-4 (mf)
Plator pandeae Zhu et al., 2006a: 42, f. 20-24 (mf)
Plator pandeae Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2020d: 137, f. 10-14, 19-24 (mf)
Plator pandeae Zamani & Marusik, 2022e: 298, f. 1A-D, 2A-C, 3A-G (mf)
Plator indicus Sankaran, Tripathy & Tripathi, 2025: 447, f. 1-6 (m, S of Plator pandeae, S of P. ixodinus confirmed)
References

Hu, J. L. & Li, A. H. (1987a). The spiders collected from the fields and the forests of Xizang Autonomous Region, China. (1). Agricultural Insects, Spiders, Plant Diseases and Weeds of Xizang 1: 315-392. -- Show included taxa

Hu, J. L. (2001). Spiders in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China. Henan Science and Technology Publishing House, 658 pp. -- Show included taxa

Platnick, N. I. (1976e). Notes on East Asian Plator (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea). Acta Arachnologica 27(1): 1-7. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.27.1 -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1899d). Diagnoses of some new Indian Arachnida. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 12(4): 744-753. -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1900a). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Arachnida. Taylor and Francis, London, 279 pp. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.48423 -- Show included taxa

Sankaran, P. M., Caleb, J. T. D. & Sebastian, P. A. (2020d). The species of the genus Plator Simon, 1880 in India (Araneae: Trochanteriidae). Zootaxa 4852(1): 133-141. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4852.1.7 -- Show included taxa

Sankaran, P. M., Tripathy, A. & Tripathi, R. (2025). On the identity of Plator indicus Simon, 1897, and a catalogue of Indian trochanteriid fauna (Araneae: Trochanteriidae). Zootaxa 5686(3): 447-450. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5686.3.8 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1897g). Matériaux pour servir à la faune arachnologique de l'Asie méridionale. V. Arachnides recueillis à Dehra-Dun (N. W. Prov.) et dans le Dekkan par M. A. Smythies. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 10: 252-262. -- Show included taxa

Tikader, B. K. (1969c). Studies of some rare spiders of the families Selenopidae and Platoridae from India. Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Science 69(B): 252-255. -- Show included taxa

Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2022e). A new species of Plator Simon, 1880 from Pakistan, with a supplementary description of P. pandeae Tikader, 1969 (Araneae: Trochanteriidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 129(2): 297-301. doi: 10.35929/RSZ.0076 -- Show included taxa

Zhu, M. S., Tang, G. M., Zhang, F. & Song, D. X. (2006a). Revision of the spider family Trochanteriidae from China (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea). Zootaxa 1140: 31-51. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.1140.1.2 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-08-28 New taxonomic reference entry Sankaran, Tripathy & Tripathi, 2025
2025-08-28 Species synonymy Sankaran, Tripathy & Tripathi, 2025 Plator pandeae synonymized with Plator indicus
2020-09-14 New taxonomic reference entry Platnick, 1976e
2020-09-14 Species synonymy Pocock, 1900a Plator ixodinus synonymized with Plator indicus

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