Evippa rajasthanea 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 : 160-162

Evippa rajasthanea Tikader & Malhotra, 1980

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Evippa rajasthaneus Tikader & Malhotra, 1980: 306 , figs 126–130. Platnick 1989: 366.

Evippa rajasthanea Platnick 2001 .

Type material. Female holotype from INDIA: Rajasthan: Jodhpur: Mandore (26°20’33.73’’N, 73°02’39.56’’E), 243 m alt.; R. C. Sharma leg.; 24 August 1963; repository NZC-ZSI, Kolkata (4648/18), examined. Female paratype and two male allotypes, with the same data as the holotype, examined .

Diagnosis. Evippa rajasthanea seem closely similar to E. praelongipes as both have a long median apophysis and epigynum with a long median septum, but can be distinguished from the latter by the following combination of features. Males: median apophysis with an apical retrolateral process and without any basal process (median apophysis of E. praelongipes with an apical prolateral process and a spine-like baso-prolateral process), and tegulum lacks additional apical process (tegulum of E. praelongipes with an additional long apico-retrolateral process near to median apophysis, compare Fig. 3B–C with Alderweireldt, 1991: fig. 5.1–2). Females: epigynal median septum with short disto-lateral processes and W-shaped posterior margin (epigynal median septum of E. praelongipes without short disto-lateral processes and with V-shaped posterior margin) and nearly globular spermathecae ( E. praelongipes with nearly oval spermathecae, compare Fig. 3D, F with Alderweireldt, 1991: fig. 5.4–5).

Description. For description of male and female, see Tikader & Malhotra (1980).

Remarks. The NZC-ZSI collection has three glass tubes for this species. A tube labeled as ‘holotype’ (4648/18) contains one female specimen in fairly good condition, with broken legs and intact genitalia. A second tube labeled as ‘paratype’ (4649/18) contains one female specimen in fairly good condition, with broken legs. The same tube has a small glass vial containing the dissected genitalia. A third tube labeled as ‘allotype’ (4650/18) contains two male specimens in fairly good condition, with broken legs. In the original description, single register number was assigned for both the holotype, the paratype and the allotypes ( Tikader & Malhotra 1980). However, the labels in the type tubes mention separate registration numbers.

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FIGURE 2. Evippa rajasthanea Tikader & Malhotra, 1980. A holotype female habitus (NZC-ZSI-4648/18), dorsal. B paratype female habitus (NZC-ZSI-4649/18), dorsal. C allotype male habitus (NZC-ZSI-4650/18), dorsal. D–F labels from type tubes. Scale bars: A–C, 2 mm.

FIGURE 3. Evippa rajasthanea Tikader & Malhotra, 1980. A–C allotype male left pedipalp (NZC-ZSI-4650/18):A ventral; B ventral enlarged; C retrolateral enlarged. D holotype epigynum without clearing (NZC-ZSI-4648/18), ventral. E–F genitalia of paratype female (NZC-ZSI-4649/18): E epigynum, ventral; F vulva, dorsal. Arrows indicate short disto-lateral processes. Scale bars: A, 0.5 mm; B–F, 0.2 mm.