Oedignatha Explained

Oedignatha is a genus of Asian spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1881 as a genus of corinnid sac spiders,^[1] and moved to Liocranidae in 2014.^[2]

Species

it contains thirty-seven species in Southeast Asia,^[3] several of which were transferred from other genera, including O. aleipata from Storena,^[4] O. andamanensis & O. raigadensis from Amaurobius,^[5] O. proboscidea from Corinna,^[6] and O. ferox from the former monotypic genus Aepygnatha.^[7]

• Oedignatha affinis Simon, 1897 – Sri Lanka
• Oedignatha albofasciata Strand, 1907 – India
• Oedignatha aleipata (Marples, 1955) – Samoa
• Oedignatha andamanensis (Tikader, 1977) – India (Andaman Is.)
• Oedignatha barbata Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Thailand
• Oedignatha bicolor Simon, 1896 – Sri Lanka
• Oedignatha binoyii Reddy & Patel, 1993 – India
• Oedignatha bucculenta Thorell, 1897 – Myanmar
• Oedignatha canaca Berland, 1938 – Vanuatu
• Oedignatha carli Reimoser, 1934 – India
• Oedignatha coriacea Simon, 1897 – Sri Lanka
• Oedignatha dentifera Reimoser, 1934 – India
• Oedignatha escheri Reimoser, 1934 – India
• Oedignatha ferox (Thorell, 1897) – Myanmar
• Oedignatha flavipes Simon, 1897 – Sri Lanka
• Oedignatha gulosa Simon, 1897 – Sri Lanka
• Oedignatha indica Reddy & Patel, 1993 – India
• Oedignatha jocquei Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Thailand
• Oedignatha lesserti Reimoser, 1934 – India
• Oedignatha major Simon, 1896 – Sri Lanka
• Oedignatha microscutata Reimoser, 1934 – India
• Oedignatha mogamoga Marples, 1955 – Seychelles, Malaysia, Indonesia (Borneo). Introduced to Samoa
• Oedignatha montigena Simon, 1897 – Sri Lanka
• Oedignatha platnicki Song & Zhu, 1998 – China (Hong Kong), Taiwan
• Oedignatha poonaensis Majumder & Tikader, 1991 – India
• Oedignatha proboscidea (Strand, 1913) – Sri Lanka
• Oedignatha procerula Simon, 1897 – India
• Oedignatha raigadensis Bastawade, 2006 – India
• Oedignatha retusa Simon, 1897 – Sri Lanka
• Oedignatha rugulosa Thorell, 1897 – Myanmar
• Oedignatha scrobiculata Thorell, 1881 (type) – Seychelles, Reunion, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan
• Oedignatha shillongensis Biswas & Majumder, 1995 – India
• Oedignatha sima Simon, 1886 – Thailand
• Oedignatha spadix Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Indonesia (Sulawesi, Lesser Sunda Is.)
• Oedignatha striata Simon, 1897 – Sri Lanka
• Oedignatha tricuspidata Reimoser, 1934 – India
• Oedignatha uncata Reimoser, 1934 – India

Notes and References

1. Thorell. T.. 1881. Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova.. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 1–727. 17.
2. Ramírez. M. J.. 2014. The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 390. 343. 10.1206/821.1. 11336/18066. 86146467.
3. Gen. Oedignatha Thorell, 1881. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-05-21. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.
4. Dankittipakul. P.. Jocqué. R.. Singtripop. T.. 2012. Systematics and biogeography of the spider genus Mallinella Strand, 1906, with descriptions of new species and new genera from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Zodariidae). Zootaxa. 3369. 317. 10.11646/zootaxa.3369.1.1.
5. Bastawade. D. B.. 2006. Replacement name for Amaurobius indicus Bastawade and its transfer to family Corinnidae (Arachnida: Araneae). Zoos' Print Journal. 21. 7. 2307. 10.11609/JoTT.ZPJ.1577.2307. free.
6. Book: Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L.. 2001. Forest spiders of South East Asia: with a revision of the sac and ground spiders (Araneae: Clubionidae, Corinnidae, Liocranidae, Gnaphosidae, Prodidomidae and Trochanterriidae [sic]). 263, 396.
7. Book: Simon, E. 1897. Histoire naturelle des araignées. 190. 10.5962/bhl.title.51973. 2027/hvd.32044107176935.