Hippasa valiveruensis Patel & Reddy 1993
Creators: name: SANKARAN, PRADEEP M.
name: CALEB, JOHN T. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Lycosidae
Hippasa
Hippasa valiveruensis

description: Hippasa valiveruensis Patel & Reddy, 1993
Figs 30–31, 40
Hippasa valiveruensis Patel & Reddy, 1993: 121, fig. 1a–d (♀).
Type material. Holotype ♀ from INDIA: Andhra Pradesh: Guntur: Valiveru (16°11'N, 80°35'E; 10 m alt.), 15 January 1985, T. S. Reddy leg., repository NZC-ZSI, Kolkata (no register number specified), not examined. Paratypes 5 ♀♀, with the same data as holotype, not examined.
Topotype material examined. INDIA: Andhra Pradesh: Guntur: Valiveru (16°11'N, 80°35'E; 10 m alt.), 11 October 2019, M.S. Pradeep & A. V. Mathew leg., from web on ground, by hand: 2 ♀♀ (ADSH595035).
Diagnosis. Females of H. valiveruensis are closely related to the females of H. agelenoides as both have small body and similar colour pattern, but can be separated from the latter by epigyne without atrium (vs. epigyne with atrium in H. agelenoides), horizontally oriented spermathecal stalks (vs. vertically oriented spermathecal stalks in H. agelenoides) and globular spermathecae (vs. oval spermathecae in H. agelenoides) (compare Figs 30G–H, 31A–B with Figs 7F–G, 8D–E).
Supplementary description. Female in ethanol (ADSH595035; Fig. 30A–E). Carapace, clypeus, chelicerae, endites, labium brownish; thoracic part marginally black; sternum pale brownish; opisthosoma greyish; leg and palp segments, spinnerets greenish black with black annulations and patches on leg and palp segments. Carapace clothed with fine black appressed setae. Thoracic part with slightly undulating margin (Fig. 30B). Thoracic fovea reddish, long (0.41), straight, longitudinal (Fig. 30A). Chelicerae dorsally clothed with moderately long setae; inner and outer surfaces provided with stridulatory files; promargin provided with a series of moderately long setae with bend tips, pro- and retromargins with three teeth (Fig. 30D). Sternum provided with scattered black setae, with a broad median longitudinal black band (Fig. 30C). Opisthosoma elongate-ovoid, hirsute; cardiac area marked with a pale brown patch; dorsum medially provided with transverse black bands and spots; venter proximolaterally provided with black spots arranged in a single line; sides provided with discontinuous black stripes. Spinnerets hirsute (Fig. 30E). Legs long, slender, hirsute, spinose; metatarsi without scopulae; tarsi with reduced scopulae. Body length 6.19. Carapace 2.80 long, 2.20 wide. Opisthosoma 3.39 long, 2.05 wide. Eye diameters and interdistances: ALE 0.11, AME 0.12, PLE 0.16, PME 0.18; AME–ALE 0.06, AME–AME 0.08, AME–PME 0.11, PLE–PLE 0.57, PME–PLE 0.20, PME– PME 0.22. Clypeus height at AMEs 0.16, at ALEs 0.11. Length of chelicerae 0.93. Measurements of palp and legs: palp 3.31 [1.07, 0.52, 0.69, 1.03], I 9.00 [2.47, 1.01, 1.91, 2.34, 1.27], II 8.55 [2.39, 1.03, 1.79, 2.05, 1.29], III 8.53 [2.37, 1.06, 1.77, 2.04, 1.29], IV 12.79 [3.12, 1.12, 2.99, 3.96, 1.60]. Leg formula: 4123. Spination of palp: femur pld 1 do 3 rld 1, patella pld 1 do 2, tibia pld 1 plv 1 rld 1, tarsus pl 1 pld 1 plv 1 rl 1 rlv 1; legs: femur I pld 1 do 2 rld 2, II–III pld 3 do 3 rld 3, IV pld 3 do 3 rld 1; patellae I–IV pld 1 do 2 rld 1; tibia I pl 1 pld 1 plv 3 do 1 rl 2 rlv 3, II pl 1 pld 2 plv 1 rl 1 rld 2 rlv 3, III pl 1 pld 1 plv 3 rl 1 rld 3 rlv 1, IV pl 1 pld 2 plv 3 rl 1 rld 3 rlv 3; metatarsus I pld 2 plv 3 rl 1 rld 1 rlv 3 vt 1, II pld 3 plv 3 rld 3 rlv 3 vt 1, III pld 3 plv 3 rld 3 rlv 3 vt 1, IV pld 3 plv 3 rld 3 rlv 4 vt 1; tarsi I–IV spineless. Genitalia (Figs 30F–H, 31A–B): epigyne clothed in bushy setae (Fig. 30F), with M-shaped narrow, wide median and short semicircular lateral plates (Fig. 31A; MEP, LEP). Spermathecal stalks slender, S-shaped (Figs 30G–H, 31B; SS). Accessory glands oval, without stalk, originating basally to spermathecal stalks (Fig. 30G, 31B; AG). Spermathecae globular (Figs 30H, 31B; S). Fertilization ducts anteriorly directed, converging (Fig. 31B; FD).
Male. Unknown.
Variation. Female (n=2): 6.12–6.19.
Distribution. India: Andhra Pradesh (Patel & Reddy 1993; present data) (Fig. 40).
Remarks. We were unable to trace the types of H. valiveruensis in the arachnid collection of ZSI, even though the authors mentioned that the types would be deposited there (Patel & Reddy 1993).
description: Published as part of SANKARAN, PRADEEP M. & CALEB, JOHN T. D., 2023, Notes on Indian wolf spiders: II. Genus Hippasa Simon, 1885 (Araneae: Lycosidae Hippasinae), pp. 101-152 in Zootaxa 5230 (2) on page 140, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5230.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7554943