Hippasa greenalliae- group

Diagnosis. In this species group, the bifurcation of the two arms of the median apophysis is usually located distally and the anterior arm (AA) is normally finger-like (Figs 3 A, 4C, 5A, 6D). The epigyne posesses a scape extending posteriorly (Figs 3 C–D, 4E–G, 5C–D, 6F–G).

Composition and distribution. Twelve species and one subspecies are included (Fig. 1).

Twelve of them from Asia:

H. afghana Roewer, 1960 (Roewer, 1960b, ♀, from Afghanistan) H. agelenoides (Simon, 1884) (♀♂, from India and Myanmar) H. charamaensis Gajbe, 2004 (♀♂, from India)

H. domratchevae Andreeva, 1976 (♀♂, from Tajikistan)

H. greenalliae (Blackwall, 1867) (♀♂, from India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) H. holmerae Thorell, 1895 (♀♂, from India, China and Philippines) H. holmerae sundaica Thorell, 1895 (sex unknown, from Singapore) H. lingxianensis Yin & Wang, 1980 (♀♂, from China and Japan) H. loeffleri (Roewer, 1955) (♀, from Iran)

H. madhuae Tikader & Malhotra, 1980 (♀♂, from India)

H. madraspatana Gravely, 1924 (♀♂, from India)

H. pisaurina Pocock, 1900 (♀♂, from Iraq, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) One of them from Africa:

H. lamtoensis Dresco, 1981 (♀♂, from Ivory Coast)

Among this species group, the African species, H. lamtoensis is quite similar to H. greenalliae from South Asia (India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka).