Wadicosa fidelis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 )

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 : 169-170

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scientific name	Wadicosa fidelis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 )
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Wadicosa fidelis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) View in CoL

Fig. 10 View FIGURE 10

Lycosa fidelis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872: 319 .

Wadicosa fidelis Kronestedt & Zyuzin 2009: 818 View in CoL , figs 1–20 (for complete list of references, see World Spider Catalog 2021). Evippa mandlaensis Gajbe, 2004: 8 , figs 6–9. New synonymy

Type material. E. mandlaensis . Female holotype from INDIA: Madhya Pradesh: Mandla (= Mandala): Narayanganj (22°49’38.41’’N, 80°14’10.73’’E), 431 m alt.; U.A. Gajbe leg.; 23 January 1985; repository NZC-ZSI, Kolkata (no register number specified), examined. W. fidelis . Lectotype male from ‘Palestine’ ( OXUM, collection of O. Pickard-Cambridge: bottle 1572, tube 39), not examined. Kronestedt & Zyuzin (2009) illustrated the male and female genitalia of this species and their female genitalic illustrations ( Kronestedt & Zyuzin 2009: figs 15, 17) were used for comparative purpose.

Justification of the synonymy. Gajbe (2004) described E. mandlaensis based on a female specimen collected in Madhya Pradesh. Detailed examination of the holotype showed no differences between this species and W. fidelis , a widely distributed species, which was previously recorded from India ( Tikader & Malhotra 1980; Lu et al. 2016) (compare Fig. 10B–C View FIGURE 10 with Kronestedt & Zyuzin 2009: figs 15, 17). Thus, we consider E. mandlaensis as a junior synonym of W. fidelis .

Remarks. The NZC-ZSI collection has one glass tube for E. mandlaensis , labeled as ‘holotype’ (Ar-1621) and containing one female specimen in fairly good condition, with broken legs. The same tube has a small glass vial containing the dissected genitalia.

References

Gajbe, U. A. (2004) Studies on some spiders of the family Lycosidae (Araneae: Arachnida) from Madhya Pradesh, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper, 221, 1 - 40.

Kronestedt, T. & Zyuzin, A. A. (2009) Fixation of Lycosa fidelis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 as the type species for the genus Wadicosa Zyuzin, 1985 (Araneae: Lycosidae), with a redescripton of the species. Contributions to Natural History, 12, 813 - 828. [incl. corrigendum: Vol. 13 / 2010: 89]

Lu, T., Wang, L. Y., Hadole, P. & Zhang, Z. S. (2016) Redescription of four wolf-spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae) from India. Indian Journal of Arachnology, 5, 130 - 142.

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1872) General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 40, 212 - 354, pls. 13 - 16.

Tikader, B. K. & Malhotra, M. S. (1980) Lycosidae (Wolf-spiders). Fauna India, Araneae, 1, 248 - 447.

World Spider Catalog (2021) World Spider Catalog. Version 22. Natural History Museum Bern, Bern. https: // doi. org / 10.24436 / 2