Evippa sohani Tikader & Malhotra, 1980
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Evippa sohani Tikader & Malhotra, 1980 View in CoL
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Evippa sohani Tikader & Malhotra, 1980: 303 View in CoL , figs 116–120.
Type material. Female holotype from INDIA: Maharashtra: Ahmednagar: Ahmednagar city: Cantonment area ; M.S. Malhotra leg.; 8 June 1974; repository NZC-ZSI, Kolkata (4675/18), examined. Three male allotypes, with same data as the holotype, examined .
Diagnosis. Evippa sohani seem closely similar to E. shivajii as both have a stout median apophysis with welldeveloped protrusions, and epigynum with a squarish distal part of median septum. It can be distinguished from the latter by the following combination of features. Males: median apophysis with an additional, baso-prolateral spine-like protrusion (absent in E. shivajii ) and tegulum with a short, disto-retrolateral rectangular protrusion (absent in E. shivajii , compare Fig. 5B–C View FIGURE 5 with Fig. 8B–C View FIGURE 8 ). Females: proximal part of epigynal median septum wide (comparatively narrow in E. shivajii ) and short, stout spermathecae (long, balloon-like spermathecae in E. shivajii , compare Fig. 6A–C View FIGURE 6 with Fig. 8E–F View FIGURE 8 ).
Supplementary description. Male (allotype, Fig. 7B View FIGURE 7 ). Body length 5.06. Prosoma length 2.78, width 2.12. Opisthosoma length 2.28, width 1.61. Eye diameters: ALE 0.08. AME 0.19. PLE 0.37. PME 0.38. Eye interdistances: ALE–AME 0.06. AME–AME 0.07. PLE–PLE 0.64. PLE–PME 0.45. PME–PME 0.33. Chelicerae length 0.88. Clypeus height at ALE 0.20, at AME 0.19. Measurements of pedipalp and legs. Pedipalp 3.57 [1.15, 0.67, 0.71, 1.04], I 11.24 [2.87, 1.25, 2.65, 2.93, 1.54], II 8.95 [2.72, 1.02, 2.30, 2.91, 1.59], III 11.76 [2.89, 1.04, 2.43, 3.62, 1.78], IV 16.18 [3.69, 1.25, 3.61, 5.16, 2.47]. Leg formula: 4321. Pedipalp as in Fig. 8A–D View FIGURE 8 .
Female (holotype, Fig. 7A View FIGURE 7 ). Body length 6.05. Prosoma length 2.78, width 2.23. Opisthosoma length 3.27, width 2.05. Eye diameters:ALE 0.10. AME 0.14. PLE 0.35. PME 0.40. Eye interdistances: ALE–AME 0.05. AME– AME 0.08. PLE–PLE 0.70. PLE–PME 0.53. PME–PME 0.32. Chelicerae length 0.95. Clypeus height at ALE 0.19, at AME 0.17. Measurements of palp and legs. Palp (right) 3.25 [1.20, 0.55, 0.54, 0.96], I --- [2.40, 1.12, ---, ---, ---], II --- [2.22, 1.01, 1.89, 1.91, ---], III --- [2.15, 0.86, 1.66, 2.07, ---], IV --- [3.12, 1.06, 2.78, 3.65, ---]. Genitalia as in Fig. 8E–F View FIGURE 8 .
Remarks. The NZC-ZSI collection has two glass tubes for this species. A tube labeled as ‘holotype’ (4675/18) contains one female specimen in fairly good condition, with broken legs. The same tube has a small glass vial containing the dissected genitalia. A second tube labeled as ‘allotype’ (4676/18) contains three male specimens in good condition (but one with broken legs). In the original description, single register number was assigned for both the holotype and the allotypes ( Tikader & Malhotra 1980). However, the labels in the type tubes mention separate registration number for holotype and the allotypes.
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