Evippa solanensis 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 : 169

Evippa solanensis Tikader & Malhotra, 1980

Fig. 9

Evippa solanensis Tikader & Malhotra, 1980: 308 , figs 131–134.

Type material. Female holotype from INDIA: Himachal Pradesh: Chamba: Kilar (33°05’02.67’’N, 76°24’25.68’’E), 2744 m alt.; Raj Tilak leg.; 5 September 1974; repository NZC-ZSI, Kolkata (4673/18), examined .

Diagnosis. Females of E. solanensis are similar to the females of E. shivajii as both have a pentagonal distal part of epigynal median septum, but can be distinguished from the latter by short proximal part of epigynal median septum, which is long in E. shivajii , and proximally narrow spermathecae, which are nearly uniform in diameter in E. shivajii (compare Fig. 9B–C with 6A–C).

Supplementary description. Female (holotype, Fig. 9A ). Body length 5.59. Prosoma length 2.61, width 2.16. Opisthosoma length 2.98, width 1.82. Eye diameters: ALE 0.12. AME 0.14. PLE 0.29. PME 0.32. Eye interdistances: ALE–AME 0.04. AME–AME 0.07. PLE–PLE 0.64. PLE–PME 0.43. PME–PME 0.36. Chelicerae length 1.02. Clypeus height at ALE 0.22, at AME 0.20. Measurements of palp and legs. Palp 3.32 [1.08, 0.64, 0.64, 0.96], I ---, II ---, III --- [2.48, 1.02, 2.08, 2.45, ---], IV --- [3.50, 1.25, 3.06, 3.92, ---]. Genitalia as in Fig. 9B–C .

Male. Unknown.

Remarks. The NZC-ZSI collection has one glass tube for this species, labeled as ‘holotype’ (4673/18) and containing one female specimen in fairly good condition, with broken legs. The same tube has a small glass vial containing the dissected genitalia.

Figures

FIGURE 9. Evippa solanensis Tikader & Malhotra, 1980. A holotype female habitus (NZC-ZSI-4673/18), dorsal. B–C genitalia: B epigynum, ventral; C vulva, dorsal. D label from type tube. Scale bars: A, 1 mm; B–C, 0.2 mm.