Cilantica kayi Gravely, 1915

♀ Female described

Female

Female © Zeeshan A. Mirza (2024), adult female in life

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Bibliography

Gravely, F. H. (1915). Notes on Indian mygalomorph spiders. Records of the Indian Museum (Calcutta) 11: 257-287.

Mirza, Z. A. (2024). Systematics of the Western Ghats endemic tarantula subfamily Thrigmopoeinae with the description of a new genus and four new species. Travaux du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Grigore Antipa 67 (2): 183-234.

Distribution

India

Specimen Records (2)

ZSIK (holotype) ♀ Holotype India

Parambikulam, Cochin State, Kerala

Holotype immature female of Cilantica kayi (Gravely, 1915), at the Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata. Examined by Mirza (2024).

BNHS SP 124 ♀ India

Along a road near Salim Ali Centre, Parambikulam Tiger Reserve, 506 m, Kerala

January 2014 · col. Rajesh Sanap & Zeeshan Mirza

Topotype female of Cilantica kayi, used for the redescription by Mirza (2024). Collected 12 January 2014.