Hippasa

Wang, Lu-Yu, Li, Zong-Xu, Zhou, Ke-Xin & Zhang, Zhi-Sheng, 2015, Redescription of three Hippasa species from China (Araneae: Lycosidae), with a proposed species group-division and diagnosis, Zootaxa 3974 (2), pp. 231-244 : 233-234

Hippasa greenalliae- group

Diagnosis. In this species group, the bifurcation of the two arms of the median apophysis is usually located distally and the anterior arm (AA) is normally finger-like ( Figs 3 A, 4C, 5A, 6D). The epigyne posesses a scape extending posteriorly ( Figs 3 C–D, 4E–G, 5C–D, 6F–G).

Composition and distribution. Twelve species and one subspecies are included ( Fig. 1 ).

Twelve of them from Asia:

H. afghana Roewer, 1960 ( Roewer, 1960b, ♀, from Afghanistan) H. agelenoides ( Simon, 1884) (♀♂, from India and Myanmar) H. charamaensis Gajbe, 2004 (♀♂, from India)

H. domratchevae Andreeva, 1976 (♀♂, from Tajikistan)

H. greenalliae ( Blackwall, 1867) (♀♂, from India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) H. holmerae Thorell, 1895 (♀♂, from India, China and Philippines) H. holmerae sundaica Thorell, 1895 (sex unknown, from Singapore) H. lingxianensis Yin & Wang, 1980 (♀♂, from China and Japan) H. loeffleri ( Roewer, 1955) (♀, from Iran)

H. madhuae Tikader & Malhotra, 1980 (♀♂, from India)

H. madraspatana Gravely, 1924 (♀♂, from India)

H. pisaurina Pocock, 1900 (♀♂, from Iraq, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) One of them from Africa:

H. lamtoensis Dresco, 1981 (♀♂, from Ivory Coast)

Among this species group, the African species, H. lamtoensis is quite similar to H. greenalliae from South Asia ( India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Distribution records of the Hippasa greenalliae - group.

FIGURE 3. Hippasa holmerae Thorell, 1895. A. Left male pedipalp, ventral view; B. Same, retrolateral view; C. Epigyne, ventral view; D. Same, dorsal view. Abbreviations: AA, anterior arm of median apophysis; Co, conductor; CO, copulatory opening; Em, embolus; FD, fertilization duct; HS, head of spermatheca; PA, posterior arm of median apophysis; Sc, scape; SS, stalk of spermatheca; St, subtegulum; TA, terminal apophysis (= synembolus sensu Zyuzin (1993 )); Te, tegulum.