Hippasa haryanensis Arora & Monga, 1994

SANKARAN, PRADEEP M. & CALEB, JOHN T. D., 2023, Notes on Indian wolf spiders: II. Genus Hippasa Simon, 1885 (Araneae: Lycosidae Hippasinae), Zootaxa 5230 (2), pp. 101-152 : 144-145

Hippasa haryanensis Arora & Monga, 1994 , nomen nudum

Hippasa haryanensis Arora & Monga, 1994: 74 , figs 5–8 (♂ ♀).

Type material. Holotype ♀ from INDIA: Haryana: Hisar: Pigeon pea fields at Research Farm of Chaudhary Charan Singh ( CCS) Haryana Agricultural University , 28 August 1989, P. Arora leg., repository unknown (no register number specified), not examined . Paratypes 10 ♂♂, 30 ♀♀, with the same data as holotype except 15 July 1989, 28 August 1989 and 20 September 1989, not examined . Allotype 1 ♂, with the same data as holotype, not examined.

Remarks. We were unable to examine the types of this species as no information is available about its repository ( Arora & Monga 1994), and thus should be considered nomen nudum in the terms of art. 16.4 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature ( ICZN 1999). The original description and genitalic illustrations of this smallsized species (body length: male 5.52, female 6.45) are poor and insufficiently informative to recognize it ( Arora & Monga 1994: figs 5, 8). The original description of the female mentions that the sternum lacks the mid-longitudinal band ( Arora & Monga 1994), indicating it may not be a member of Hippasa . Moreover, the median epigynal septum illustrated for this species ( Arora & Monga 1994: fig. 8) indicates that it may be a member of either Ovia Sankaran, Malamel & Sebastian, 2017 or Trochosa C.L. Koch, 1847 . The novelty and taxonomic placement of this species remain unchallenged until examination of its types or topotype specimens.