Laminion

Laminion is a genus of south Asian ant spiders. It was first described by P. M. Sankaran, J. T. D. Caleb and P. A. Sebastian in 2020,^[2] and it has only been found in India.^[1]

Laminion
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Zodariidae
Genus:	Laminion Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2020[1]
Type species
L. birenifer (Gravely, 1921)
Species
4, see text

Species

As of November 2021^[update] it contains 4 species:^[1]

• L. arakuense (Patel & Reddy, 1989) – India
• L. birenifer (Gravely, 1921) – India
• L. debasrae (Biswas & Biswas, 1992) – India
• L. gujaratense (Tikader & Patel, 1975) – India

See also

• List of Zodariidae species

References

1. "Gen. Laminion Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2020". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-11-17.
2. Sankaran, P. M.; Caleb, J. T. D.; Sebastian, P. A. (2020). "A review of the Indian species formerly assigned to the genus Storena Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae: Zodariidae) with the description of a new genus". European Journal of Taxonomy. 707: 1–23. doi:10.5852/ejt.2020.707.

Further reading

• Solanki, R.; Siliwal, M.; Kumar, D. (2018). "Transfer of Storena gujaratensis Tikader & Patel, 1975 to the genus Suffasia Jocqué, 1991 (Araneae: Zodariidae)". Journal of Threatened Taxa. 10 (8): 12130–12132. doi:10.11609/jott.3452.10.8.12130-12132.

• Patel, B. H.; Reddy, T. S. (1989). "On some rare spiders of the family Zodariidae (Araneae: Arachnida) from coastal Andhra Pradesh, India". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 86: 221–225.

• Tikader, B. K.; Patel, B. H. (1975). "Studies on some rare spiders of the family Zodariidae from India". Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society. 3 (5): 137–139.

• Gravely, F. H. (1921). "The spiders and scorpions of Barkuda Island". Records of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 22: 399–421, pl.