Sankaran Pradeep M, Sebastian Pothalil A
Division of Arachnology, Department of Zoology, Sacred Heart College, Thevara, Cochin, Kerala 682 013, India..
Zootaxa. 2017 Dec 12;4363(3):441-444. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4363.3.9.
The dictynid genus Anaxibia Thorell, 1898 currently has six nominal species distributed in the Oriental and Ethiopian regions (World Spider Catalog 2017). The genus represents tiny to small spiders characterised by a reduced cribellum, long, cylindrical anterior and posterior spinnerets, cymbium with caudal modification, palpal patella with dorsal horn, sub-apically arising embolus, conductor with wide lamellar apex and simple female genitalia (Lehtinen 1967). The genus has one representative in India: Anaxibia rebai (Tikader, 1966), originally described under Dictyna Sundevall, 1833 (Tikader 1966; Lehtinen 1967). In this paper, we describe and illustrate a new litter-dwelling Anaxibia species collected from the Kerala state of southern India.
1898年，托雷尔（Thorell）建立的盘蛛属（Anaxibia）目前有6个命名物种，分布于东洋区和埃塞俄比亚区（《世界蜘蛛名录》，2017年）。该属为小型至微小的蜘蛛，其特征为筛器退化、前后纺器长且呈圆柱形、跗节具尾端变异、触肢器的髌节具背角、栓塞从亚顶端生出、引导器具宽的片状顶端以及雌性生殖器简单（莱蒂宁，1967年）。该属在印度有一个代表物种：雷氏盘蛛（Anaxibia rebai）（蒂卡德，1966年），最初于1833年被描述为平腹蛛属（Dictyna）桑德瓦尔（Sundevall）下的物种（蒂卡德，1966年；莱蒂宁，1967年）。在本文中，我们描述并展示了一种从印度南部喀拉拉邦采集到的新的生活在落叶层中的盘蛛属物种。
