Notes on Indian wolf spiders: III. Genera Acantholycosa Dahl, 1908, Evippomma Roewer, 1959, Hippasosa Roewer, 1960 and Trochosa C. L. Koch, 1847 (Araneae: Lycosidae)
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Sankaran, Pradeep M.
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Division of Arachnology, Department of Zoology, Sacred Heart College, Thevara, Cochin, Kerala 682 013, India pradeepmspala @ rediffmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0884 - 5625
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Author
Caleb, John T. D.
Department of Anatomy, Saveetha Medical College & Hospital, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Saveetha University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 602 105, India
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Trochosa gunturensis
Patel & Reddy, 1993
Trochosa gunturensis
Patel & Reddy, 1993: 130
, fig. 6a–d (
♀
).
Type material.
Holotype
♀
from
INDIA
:
Andhra Pradesh
:
Guntur
:
Valiveru
(
16°11’N
,
80°35’E
;
10 m
alt.), leg.
T
.
S. Reddy
,
20 February 1986
, repository NZC-ZSI,
Kolkata
(no register number specified), not examined as the type was not available for the present study.
Description.
For description and illustration of the female, see
Patel & Reddy (1993)
Male
. Unknown.
Distribution.
India
(
Andhra Pradesh
,
Patel & Reddy 1993
).
Notes.
Trochosa gunturensis
is known from a single taxonomic entry with textual description supported by four illustrations (
Patel & Reddy 1993
). The size, shape and position of epigynal hoods, size and shape of epigynal median septum, and shape and arrangement of vulva illustrated for
T. gunturensis
match with that of the Chinese species
Trochosa adjacens
O.
Pickard-Cambridge, 1885
, except the difference in the size of the spermatheca, which could be an intraspecific variation, as illustrated for
T. hispanica
Simon, 1870
(compare
Patel & Reddy 1993
: fig. 6c–d with Marusik & Nadolny 2020: figs 7, 10C). The somatic colouration of
T. gunturensis
also is same as described by
Pickard-Cambridge (1885)
for
T. adjacens
. All these suggest a possible synonymy of
T
.
gunturensis
with
T
.
adjacens
, but confirmation requires the examination of type or
topotype
material of
T. gunturensis
.We were unable to trace out the types of
T. gunturensis
in the arachnid collection of ZSI, even though the authors mentioned that the type would be deposited there (
Patel & Reddy 1993
).