Dendrolycosa bobbiliensis ( Reddy & Patel, 1993 )

Sudhin, Puthoor Pattammal, Sen, Souvik & Jäger, Peter, 2023, Taxonomic notes on the nursery-web spider genus Dendrolycosa Doleschall, 1859 (Araneae: Pisauridae) from India, with the description of a new species, Zootaxa 5353 (1), pp. 67-74 : 71

Dendrolycosa bobbiliensis ( Reddy & Patel, 1993)

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Pisaura bobbiliensis Reddy & Patel 1993: 181 , figs 1–6 (description and illustrations of female).

Dendrolycosa bobbiliensis: Jäger 2011: 13 , figs 39–40 (transfer of female from Pisaura ).

Type material. Holotype ♀ from INDIA: Andhra Pradesh: Vijayanagaram, Bobbili , 25 September 1985, leg. T. S. Reddy, not examined.

Remarks. D. bobbiliensis was described based on a single female specimen collected from Bobbili, Andhra Pradesh, and was not recollected or more properly described or illustrated after its original description. We were unable to trace the type specimen in the National Zoological Collection of ZSI, even though the author mentioned that the type would be deposited there. The textual description and the drawings might help to identify conspecific specimens collected close to the type locality ( Reddy & Patel 1993: figs 1–6; Jäger 2011: figs 39–40). Hence, we refrain from proposing this name as nomen dubium.

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FIGURE 5. Collecting localities of Dendrolycosa species in India. Yellow circle indicating the type locality, yellow stars records identified as that species, but see comments in the text.