Evippa sohani Tikader & Malhotra, 1980

Sankaran, Pradeep M., Caleb, John T. D. & Sebastian, Pothalil A., 2021, Notes on Indian wolf spiders: I. Genus Evippa Simon, 1882 (Araneae: Lycosidae Evippinae), Zootaxa 4975 (1), pp. 159-175 : 166-169

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4975.1.6

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Evippa sohani Tikader & Malhotra, 1980
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Evippa sohani Tikader & Malhotra, 1980 View in CoL

Figs 7–8 View FIGURE 7 View FIGURE 8

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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Lycosidae

Genus

Evippa

Loc

Evippa sohani Tikader & Malhotra, 1980

Sankaran, Pradeep M., Caleb, John T. D. & Sebastian, Pothalil A. 2021
2021
Loc

Evippa sohani

Tikader, B. K. & Malhotra, M. S. 1980: 303
1980
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