Oedothorax banksi Lin & Lopardo & Uhl 2022, INCERTAE

• Main Authors: Lin, Shou-Wang, Lopardo, Lara, Uhl, Gabriele
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Arachnida; Araneae; Linyphiidae; Oedothorax; Oedothorax banksi; Oedothorax ' banksi strand; 1906; glacier; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6968275; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6968275

‘ OEDOTHORAX ’ BANKSI STRAND, 1906 INCERTAE SEDIS Gongylidium sp. Banks, 1900: 480. Oedothorax banksi Strand, 1906: 445 (Df). Type material: Banks’ description (1900) was based on two females collected from Muir Glacier in 1899, but no type designation was mentioned. Diagnosis: Females: From original description in Banks (1900): ‘the epigynum is an elliptical area with a nearly square cavity in posterior part; on middle of hind margin is a denticle projecting forward’. Although difficult to comprehend the structure solely based on this description, the presence of a cavity in the posterior part of the epigye discriminates this species from all Oedothorax, Mitrager, Callitrichia species and their related genera, like Gongylidium and Timeticus. Males: Unknown. Distribution: USA, Alaska. Habitat: Glacier. Remarks: Due to the unavailability of type material and any images in the original descriptions of this species, the current status of this species is unclear. Published as part of Lin, Shou-Wang, Lopardo, Lara & Uhl, Gabriele, 2022, Evolution of nuptial-gift-related male prosomal structures: taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of the genus Oedothorax (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Erigoninae), pp. 417-584 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195 on page 541, DOI:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab033, http://zenodo.org/record/6967774