Malamel Jobi J, Nafin Karunnappilli Shamsudheen, Sankaran Pradeep M, Sebastian Pothalil A
Division of Arachnology, Department of Zoology, Sacred Heart College, Thevara, Cochin, Kerala 682 013, India..
Zootaxa. 2018 Apr 9;4407(1):145-150. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4407.1.13.
Zhu et al. (1997) erected the tetragnathid genus Wolongia to accommodate Wolongia guoi Zhu, Kim Song, 1997 and Wolongia wangi Zhu, Kim Song, 1997 collected from the Sichuan and Shaanxi Provinces in China. In 2009, Ping et al. described Wolongia odontodes from the Gaoligong Mountains and remained with a nominal representation after the erection of the genus. This situation was somewhat rectified by Jin-long Wan Xian-jin Peng (2013) reporting seven new species from the Gaoligong Mountains (Yunnan Province, southwest China). The genus currently with ten nominal species; three are known only from females, while seven are from both sexes (World Spider Catalog 2017). During our survey in Pathiramanal Island we found an undescribed Wolongia species. This is one of the most diverse areas of the Kerala state of Southern India, situated in the Vembanad Lake, a Ramsar Convention (2013) site (wetland of international importance). In this paper, we describe this new species and provide the first report of Wolongia from India.
朱等人（1997年）建立了长脚蛛科的卧龙蛛属，以容纳采自中国四川省和陕西省的郭氏卧龙蛛（Wolongia guoi Zhu, Kim Song, 1997）和王氏卧龙蛛（Wolongia wangi Zhu, Kim Song, 1997）。2009年，平等人描述了采自高黎贡山的具齿卧龙蛛（Wolongia odontodes），该属建立后其仍为单一物种代表。金龙万和 Xian-jin Peng（2013年）报道了来自高黎贡山（中国西南部云南省）的7个新物种，这种情况在一定程度上得到了纠正。该属目前有10个命名物种；其中3种仅知雌性，7种雌雄均有（《世界蜘蛛名录》2017年）。在我们对帕西拉马纳尔岛的调查中，我们发现了一种未描述过的卧龙蛛物种。该岛位于印度南部喀拉拉邦最多样化的地区之一，地处拉姆萨尔公约（2013年）认定的维姆班纳德湖（具有国际重要性的湿地）。在本文中，我们描述了这个新物种，并首次报道了印度的卧龙蛛属物种。
