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Clubionidae Clubiona

Clubiona melanosticta Thorell, 1890

Smooth Spotted Sac Spider

Belonging to the same Clubiona species group as those in the previous page, this species shares with them a spotted pattern of the abdomen. The name "melanosticta" is derived from the Greek words for "black" and "spots". The thick brush of hairs on the metatarsi I that is one of the diagnostic features of females in this species group is clearly visible in the photograph on the right. A similar brush also exists on tarsi I of this species. The spinnerets are brownish black.

Like Clubiona sp. F. the chelicerae are jet-black. However, unlike Clubiona sp. F, the abdominal spots are less dense. The area immediately behind the posterior eyes is not covered by white hairs.

Length♀ 4 mm; ♂ 4 mm
Type Locality"Ajer Mancior" probably near Bukit Tinggi, West Sumatra, Indonesia
DistributionSingapore, Indonesia (Jambi, Lampung, North Sumatra, West Sumatra), Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, China.
HabitatFoliage in mangrove forests.

Taxonomy

Type Deposits*

  1. Syntype

    British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; (Syn: Clubiona melanothele) 1♀ (1895.9.21.75-6) (Jäger & Dankittipakul, 2010)

Taxonomic references*

  1. Clubiona melanosticta (Original description ♂)

    Thorell, 1890a Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani: 374

  2. Clubiona melanothele (Original description ♀)

    Thorell, 1895b Descriptive catalogue of the spiders of Burma, based upon the collection made by Eugene W. Oates and preserved in the British Museum: 42 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.17492

  3. Clubiona melanothele (♀)

    Gravely, 1931 Some Indian spiders of the families Ctenidae, Sparassidae, Selenopidae and Clubionidae: 261, f. 16B

  4. Clubiona melanothele (♀)

    Deeleman-Reinhold, 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]): 136, f. 53-54

  5. Clubiona melanosticta (♂)

    Dankittipakul & Singtripop, 2008a Five new species of the spider genus Clubiona Latreille (Araneae: Clubionidae) from Thailand: 42, f. 8-10, 52-54 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1747.1.2

  6. Clubiona melanothele (♀)

    Jäger & Dankittipakul, 2010 Clubionidae from Laos and Thailand (Arachnida: Araneae): 31, f. 26, 34-36 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2730.1.2

  7. Clubiona melanothele (♀)

    Dankittipakul et al., 2012 New synonym and descriptions of two new species of the spider genus Clubiona Latreille, 1804 from Thailand (Araneae, Clubionidae): 60, f. 34, 37-38 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3532.1.4

  8. Clubiona melanosticta (♂♀, Synonym of Clubiona melanothele)

    Zhang, Yu & Li, 2021a Taxonomic studies on the sac spider genus Clubiona (Araneae, Clubionidae) from Xishuangbanna Rainforest, China: 49, f. 44A-E, 45A-H, 59A, 69A, 78F, 86F, 94F doi:10.3897/zookeys.1034.59413

  9. Clubiona melanosticta (♀)

    Sudhin & Sen, 2023a Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala, India: 411, f. 3a-d doi:10.26515/rzsi/v123/i1S/2023/172458

* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.

Distribution Map for Clubiona melanosticta Thorell, 1890

Singapore, Indonesia (Jambi, Lampung, North Sumatra, West Sumatra), Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, China.

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