1986] 
Levi — Genus Witica 
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Figure 16. Witica crassicauda. Female on a leaf from Panama. 
Witica crassicauda (Keyserling) 
Figures 1-5, 8-12, 16, 17; Map 
Epeira crassicauda Keyserling, 1865; 806, pi. 18, fig. 3, 4, $. Female specimen from 
New Granada (BMNH) examined. 
Cyclosa crassicauda: — Keyserling, 1893: 270, pi. 14, fig. 200, $. 
Witica talis O.P. -Cambridge, 1895: 160, pi. 16, fig. 13, ft. Male lectotype from Teapa,| 
Tabasco, Mexico (BMNH) here designated. Simon, 1903: 1003. Petrunkevitch,! 
1930: 337, figs. 225, 226, Roewer, 1942: 894. new synonymy. j 
Salassia tricuspis Getaz, 1893: 105. Female holotype from Uruca, Costa Rica (P. 
Biolley), lost, new synonymy. 
Salassina crassicauda: — Simon, 1895: 784, fig. 853, 
Salassina tricuspis: — Simon, 1895: 784. 
Physiola nigrans Simon, 1895: 876, figs. 938, 939, Lectotype male, two males, one I 
immature and fragments of immatures paralectotypes from forest San Esteban, 
Venezuela (MNHN), here designated. First synonymized with Witica by Simon, 
1903. 
