@article {100628, title = {Description of two new species of the tribe Chrysillini Simon, 1901 from India (Araneae: Salticidae)}, journal = {ARTHROPODA SELECTA }, volume = {30}, year = {2021}, month = {06/2021}, pages = {230-238}, chapter = {2}, abstract = {

Two new species of the jumping spiders, Phintella cholkei sp.n. (male female) and Icius tukarami sp.n. (male), from Maharashtra state, India are described. Their detailed morphological descriptions, diagnoses and illustrations of the copulatory organs are provided. Yet, observations on maternal care and habitat of P. cholkei sp.n. are provided as well.

}, doi = {10.15298/arthsel.30.2.10}, author = {Prajapati, Dhruv A. and Kumbhar, Somnath B. and Caleb, John T. D. and Sanap, Rajesh V and Kamboj, Ravi D.} } @article {100629, title = {Taxonomic notes on two jumping spider species of the genus Epocilla Thorell, 1887 (Araneae: Salticidae: Chrysillini) from India and Pakistan}, journal = {ARTHROPODA SELECTA }, volume = {30}, year = {2021}, month = {06/2021}, pages = {221-229}, chapter = {2}, abstract = {

The types of Marpissa tigrina Tikader, 1965 and M. kalapani Tikader, 1977 that are kept in the National Zoological collection, Zoological Survey of India (Kolkata) are re-examined and illustrated. A new combination, Epocilla aura (Dyal, 1935) comb.n. (ex. Thiania), is proposed and three new synonyms are established: Epocilla pakhtunkhwa Ali et Maddison, 2018 syn.n. and Marpissa tigrina Tikader, 1965 syn.n. with E. aura, and Marpissa kalapani Tikader, 1977 syn.n. with Epocilla calcarata (Karsch, 1880). The distributional records of these species from India and Pakistan are mapped.

}, author = {Caleb, John T. D. and Sanap, Rajesh V and Prajapati, Dhruv A. and Bambhaniya, Prakash} } @article {25695, title = {Two new species of Langelurillus Pr{\'o}chniewicz, 1994 from India (Araneae: Salticidae: Aelurillina)}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {4318}, year = {2017}, month = {09/2017}, pages = {135-146}, abstract = {

Two new species, Langelurillus lacteus sp. nov. and L. onyx sp. nov., are described from India. Detailed illustrations and record map are given.

}, doi = {10.11646/zootaxa.4318.1.6}, author = {Sanap, Rajesh V and Joglekar, A and Prajapati, D and Caleb, JTD} } @article {5308, title = {A New Miocene-Divergent Lineage of Old World Racer Snake from India.}, journal = {PLoS One}, volume = {11}, year = {2016}, month = {2016}, pages = {e0148380}, abstract = {

A distinctive early Miocene-divergent lineage of Old world racer snakes is described as a new genus and species based on three specimens collected from the western Indian state of Gujarat. Wallaceophis gen. et. gujaratenesis sp. nov. is a members of a clade of old world racers. The monotypic genus represents a distinct lineage among old world racers is recovered as a sister taxa to Lytorhynchus based on ~3047bp of combined nuclear (cmos) and mitochondrial molecular data (cytb, ND4, 12s, 16s). The snake is distinct morphologically in having a unique dorsal scale reduction formula not reported from any known colubrid snake genus. Uncorrected pairwise sequence divergence for nuclear gene cmos between Wallaceophis gen. et. gujaratenesis sp. nov. other members of the clade containing old world racers and whip snake is 21-36\%.

}, issn = {1932-6203}, doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0148380}, author = {Mirza, Zeeshan A and Vyas, Raju and Patel, Harshil and Maheta, Jaydeep and Sanap, Rajesh V} }