Evippa jabalpurensis Gajbe, 2004

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 : 160

Evippa jabalpurensis Gajbe, 2004

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Evippa jabalpurensis Gajbe, 2004: 10 , figs 10–13.

Type material. Female holotype from INDIA: Madhya Pradesh: Jabalpur:near Shahpura : Bilpathar (23°06’55.83’’N, 79°37’02.00’’E), 373 m alt.; U.A. Gajbe leg.; 28 April 1984; repository NZC-ZSI, Kolkata (no register number specified), examined .

Diagnosis. Females of E. jabalpurensis seem closely related to the females of E. sohani as both share a hexagonal distal part of epigynal median septum and similarly shaped spermathecae, but can be separated from the latter by the narrow proximal part of epigynal median septum (which is comparatively wide in E. sohani ) (compare Fig. 1B–C with Fig. 8E–F ). This difference may be attributed to intraspecific variation and this species may be a junior synonym of E. sohani ; however, confirmation requires the examination of the males of E. jabalpurensis .

Description. For description of the female, see Gajbe (2004).

Male. Unknown.

Remarks. The NZC-ZSI collection has one glass tube for this species, labeled as ‘holotype’ (no register number) containing one female specimen in fairly good condition, with broken legs and detached opisthosoma. The same tube has a small glass vial containing the dissected genitalia. The label in the holotype tube mentions the year of collection as ‘1982’.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Evippa jabalpurensis Gajbe, 2004.A holotype female habitus, dorsal. B–C genitalia: B epigynum, ventral; C vulva, dorsal. D labels from type tube. Scale bars: A, 2 mm; B–C, 0.2 mm.

FIGURE 8. Evippa sohani Tikader & Malhotra, 1980. A–D allotype male left pedipalp (NZC-ZSI-4676/18): A ventral; B prolatero-ventral enlarged; C ventral enlarged; D retrolateral enlarged. E holotype epigynum (NZC-ZSI-4675/18), ventral. F vulva, dorsal. Arrows indicate baso-prolateral spine-like protrusion of median apophysis (1) and disto-retrolateral rectangular protrusion of tegulum (2). Scale bars: A, 0.5 mm; B–F, 0.2 mm.