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Genus: Agroeca Westring, 1861 | Family: Liocranidae Simon, 1897

Agroeca tikaderi (Gajbe, 1992)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005785

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Described:

Distribution: India

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Holotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India f (8981/18, epigyne lost) - (Sudhin, Sankaran & Sen, 2024)

Taxonomic References

Mimetus tikaderi Gajbe, 1992d: 427, f. 1-3 (Df) Original description

Mimetus tikaderi Gajbe, 2007: 433, f. 23-25 (f)

Mimetus tikaderi Harms & Harvey, 2009b: 243 (provisional T to Liocranidae as "incertae sedis", but without specifying a genus)

Agroeca tikaderi Sudhin, Sankaran & Sen, 2024: 536, f. 7A-D (f, T from Mimetus)

References

Gajbe, U. A. (1992d). A new Mimetus spider from India (Araneae: Mimetidae). Records of the Zoological Survey of India 91: 427-429. -- Show included taxa

Gajbe, U. A. (2007). Araneae: Arachnida. In: Fauna of Madhya Pradesh (including Chhattisgarh), State Fauna Series. Zoological Survey of India Kolkata 15(1), 419-540. -- Show included taxa

Harms, D. & Harvey, M. S. (2009b). Australian pirates: systematics and phylogeny of the Australasian pirate spiders (Araneae: Mimetidae), with a description of the Western Australian fauna. Invertebrate Systematics 23(3): 231-280. doi: 10.1071/is08015 -- Show included taxa

Sudhin, P. P., Sankaran, P. M. & Sen, S. (2024). Two new species and a new transfer in the pirate spider genus Mimetus Hentz, 1832 (Araneae: Mimetidae: Mimetinae) from India. Zootaxa 5496(4): 555-566. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5496.4.5 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2024-08-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Sudhin, Sankaran & Sen, 2024
2024-08-21	Species transferred to new genus	Sudhin, Sankaran & Sen, 2024		Species transferred from Mimetus to Agroeca