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.
0000-0002-9471-9467
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
caleb87woodgate@gmail.com
Author
Sebastian, Pothalil A.
0000-0002-4936-4310
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
drpothalil@rediffmail.com
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Zootaxa
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Evippa solanensis
Tikader & Malhotra, 1980
Fig. 9
Evippa solanensis
Tikader & Malhotra, 1980: 308
, figs 131–134.
Type material.
Female
holotype
from
INDIA
:
Himachal Pradesh
:
Chamba
:
Kilar
(
33°05’02.67’’N
,
76°24’25.68’’E
),
2744 m
alt.;
Raj Tilak
leg.;
5 September 1974
; repository NZC-ZSI,
Kolkata
(4673/18), examined
.
Diagnosis.
Females of
E. solanensis
are similar to the females of
E. shivajii
as both have a pentagonal distal part of epigynal median septum, but can be distinguished from the latter by short proximal part of epigynal median septum, which is long in
E. shivajii
, and proximally narrow spermathecae, which are nearly uniform in diameter in
E. shivajii
(compare
Fig. 9B–C
with 6A–C).
Supplementary description.
Female
(
holotype
,
Fig. 9A
). Body length 5.59. Prosoma length 2.61, width 2.16. Opisthosoma length 2.98, width 1.82. Eye diameters: ALE 0.12. AME 0.14. PLE 0.29. PME 0.32. Eye interdistances: ALE–AME 0.04. AME–AME 0.07. PLE–PLE 0.64. PLE–PME 0.43. PME–PME 0.36. Chelicerae length 1.02. Clypeus height at ALE 0.22, at AME 0.20. Measurements of palp and legs. Palp 3.32 [1.08, 0.64, 0.64, 0.96], I ---, II ---, III --- [2.48, 1.02, 2.08, 2.45, ---], IV --- [3.50, 1.25, 3.06, 3.92, ---].
Genitalia
as in
Fig. 9B–C
.
Male
. Unknown.
Remarks.
The NZC-ZSI collection has one glass tube for this species, labeled as ‘holotype’ (4673/18) and containing
one female
specimen in fairly good condition, with broken legs. The same tube has a small glass vial containing the dissected genitalia.