Notes on Indian wolf spiders: I. Genus Evippa Simon, 1882 (Araneae: Lycosidae Evippinae)
Author
Sankaran, Pradeep M.
Division of Arachnology, Department of Zoology, Sacred Heart College, Thevara, Cochin, Kerala 682 013, India.
Author
Caleb, John T. D.
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Zoological Survey of India, Prani Vigyan Bhawan, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal 700 053, India. caleb 87 woodgate @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9471 - 9467
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Author
Sebastian, Pothalil A.
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Division of Arachnology, Department of Zoology, Sacred Heart College, Thevara, Cochin, Kerala 682 013, India. & drpothalil @ rediffmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4936 - 4310
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Evippa rubiginosa
Simon, 1885
Evippa rubiginosa
Simon, 1885: 11
.
Gravely 1924: 611
, fig. 5E.
Tikader & Malhotra 1980: 313
, figs 143–145.
Type material.
Syntype
female from
INDIA
:
Andhra Pradesh
:
Anantapur
:
Vajrakarur
near
Guntakal
(
15°01’24’’N
,
77°23’30’’E
),
446 m
alt.;
M.M. Chaper
leg.; date unknown; repository
MNHN
,
Paris
(6995), not examined
.
Remarks.
The title of the paper in which
Simon (1885)
described
E. rubiginosa
mentions the collecting locality of this species as ‘Wagra-Karoor près Gundacul’, which can be the present day ‘Vajrakarur near Guntakal’ and is currently located in the Anantapur district in the Indian state of
Andhra Pradesh
, and not in the Bellary district in the Indian state of
Karnataka
.
Gravely (1924)
and
Tikader & Malhotra (1980)
mentioned the type locality of this species as Guntakal, in
Andhra Pradesh
. Even though
Tikader & Malhotra (1980)
illustrated the female genitalia of the
syntype
of this species, it is highly schematic, lacking diagnostic details to identify this species. The NZC-ZSI collection has one glass tube labeled as
E. rubiginosa
(7703/H2) collected in Naga Hills district (formerly Samaguting = Samagooting) of
Assam
by Godwin-Austin (?Godwin-Austen) (see also
Gravely 1924
). The tube was found empty and the specimen may either be lost or misplaced elsewhere in the collection. The current taxonomic placement of this species remains unchallenged until the examination of its type or topotype material.