Evippa rubiginosa Simon, 1885

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 : 172-173

Evippa rubiginosa Simon, 1885

Evippa rubiginosa Simon, 1885: 11 . Gravely 1924: 611, fig. 5E. Tikader & Malhotra 1980: 313, figs 143–145.

Type material. Syntype female from INDIA: Andhra Pradesh: Anantapur: Vajrakarur near Guntakal (15°01’24’’N, 77°23’30’’E), 446 m alt.; M.M. Chaper leg.; date unknown; repository MNHN, Paris (6995), not examined .

Remarks. The title of the paper in which Simon (1885) described E. rubiginosa mentions the collecting locality of this species as ‘Wagra-Karoor près Gundacul’, which can be the present day ‘Vajrakarur near Guntakal’ and is currently located in the Anantapur district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, and not in the Bellary district in the Indian state of Karnataka. Gravely (1924) and Tikader & Malhotra (1980) mentioned the type locality of this species as Guntakal, in Andhra Pradesh. Even though Tikader & Malhotra (1980) illustrated the female genitalia of the syntype of this species, it is highly schematic, lacking diagnostic details to identify this species. The NZC-ZSI collection has one glass tube labeled as E. rubiginosa (7703/H2) collected in Naga Hills district (formerly Samaguting = Samagooting) of Assam by Godwin-Austin (?Godwin-Austen) (see also Gravely 1924). The tube was found empty and the specimen may either be lost or misplaced elsewhere in the collection. The current taxonomic placement of this species remains unchallenged until the examination of its type or topotype material.