Zorodictyna inhonesta is a species of spider in the family Udubidae, found in Madagascar. It was first described by Eugène Simon in 1906 as Uduba inhonesta.[1][2] Pekka T. Lehtinen transferred it to the genus Zorodictyna in 1967,[1][3] although Pierre L.G. Benoit was still using the name Uduba inhonesta in 1972.[4]

Zorodictyna inhonesta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Udubidae
Genus: Zorodictyna
Species:
Z. inhonesta
Binomial name
Zorodictyna inhonesta
(Simon, 1906)[1]
Synonyms[1]
  • Uduba inhonesta Simon, 1906
  • Zorodictyna intermedia Strand, 1907

Under the synonym Zorodictyna intermedia, a female was described as having a bright red cephalothorax, darker towards the front. The upper surface of abdomen was brown freckled with darker spots, with two parallel lighter stripes. Its total length was at least 16 mm. The fourth leg was longest, at 22 mm.[5]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d "Taxon details Zorodictyna inhonesta (Simon, 1906)", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2016-02-02
  2. ^ Simon, E. (1906), "Etude sur les araignées de la section des cribellates", Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (in French), 50: 284–308, doi:10.5962/bhl.part.19947
  3. ^ Lehtinen, P.T. (1967), "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha", Annales Zoologici Fennici, 4: 199–468
  4. ^ Benoit, P.L.G. (1972), "Notules arachnologiques africaines II", Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines (in French), 85: 177–182
  5. ^ Strand, E. (1907), "Diagnosen neuer Spinnen aus Madagaskar und Sansibar", Zoologischer Anzeiger (in German), 31: 725–748