Evippa sohani Tikader & Malhotra 1980
Creators: name: Sankaran, Pradeep M.
name: Caleb, John T. D.
name: Sebastian, Pothalil A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Lycosidae
Evippa
Evippa sohani

description: Evippa sohani Tikader & Malhotra, 1980
Figs 7–8
Evippa sohani Tikader & Malhotra, 1980: 303, figs 116–120.
Type material. Female holotype from INDIA: Maharashtra: Ahmednagar: Ahmednagar city: Cantonment area; M.S. Malhotra leg.; 8 June 1974; repository NZC-ZSI, Kolkata (4675/18), examined. Three male allotypes, with same data as the holotype, examined.
Diagnosis. Evippa sohani seem closely similar to E. shivajii as both have a stout median apophysis with welldeveloped protrusions, and epigynum with a squarish distal part of median septum. It can be distinguished from the latter by the following combination of features. Males: median apophysis with an additional, baso-prolateral spine-like protrusion (absent in E. shivajii) and tegulum with a short, disto-retrolateral rectangular protrusion (absent in E. shivajii, compare Fig. 5B–C with Fig. 8B–C). Females: proximal part of epigynal median septum wide (comparatively narrow in E. shivajii) and short, stout spermathecae (long, balloon-like spermathecae in E. shivajii, compare Fig. 6A–C with Fig. 8E–F).
Supplementary description. Male (allotype, Fig. 7B). Body length 5.06. Prosoma length 2.78, width 2.12. Opisthosoma length 2.28, width 1.61. Eye diameters: ALE 0.08. AME 0.19. PLE 0.37. PME 0.38. Eye interdistances: ALE–AME 0.06. AME–AME 0.07. PLE–PLE 0.64. PLE–PME 0.45. PME–PME 0.33. Chelicerae length 0.88. Clypeus height at ALE 0.20, at AME 0.19. Measurements of pedipalp and legs. Pedipalp 3.57 [1.15, 0.67, 0.71, 1.04], I 11.24 [2.87, 1.25, 2.65, 2.93, 1.54], II 8.95 [2.72, 1.02, 2.30, 2.91, 1.59], III 11.76 [2.89, 1.04, 2.43, 3.62, 1.78], IV 16.18 [3.69, 1.25, 3.61, 5.16, 2.47]. Leg formula: 4321. Pedipalp as in Fig. 8A–D.
Female (holotype, Fig. 7A). Body length 6.05. Prosoma length 2.78, width 2.23. Opisthosoma length 3.27, width 2.05. Eye diameters:ALE 0.10. AME 0.14. PLE 0.35. PME 0.40. Eye interdistances: ALE–AME 0.05. AME– AME 0.08. PLE–PLE 0.70. PLE–PME 0.53. PME–PME 0.32. Chelicerae length 0.95. Clypeus height at ALE 0.19, at AME 0.17. Measurements of palp and legs. Palp (right) 3.25 [1.20, 0.55, 0.54, 0.96], I --- [2.40, 1.12, ---, ---, ---], II --- [2.22, 1.01, 1.89, 1.91, ---], III --- [2.15, 0.86, 1.66, 2.07, ---], IV --- [3.12, 1.06, 2.78, 3.65, ---]. Genitalia as in Fig. 8E–F.
Remarks. The NZC-ZSI collection has two glass tubes for this species. A tube labeled as ‘holotype’ (4675/18) contains one female specimen in fairly good condition, with broken legs. The same tube has a small glass vial containing the dissected genitalia. A second tube labeled as ‘allotype’ (4676/18) contains three male specimens in good condition (but one with broken legs). In the original description, single register number was assigned for both the holotype and the allotypes (Tikader & Malhotra 1980). However, the labels in the type tubes mention separate registration number for holotype and the allotypes.
description: Published as part of Sankaran, Pradeep M., Caleb, John T. D. & Sebastian, Pothalil A., 2021, Notes on Indian wolf spiders: I. Genus Evippa Simon, 1882 (Araneae: Lycosidae Evippinae), pp. 159-175 in Zootaxa 4975 (1) on pages 166-169, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4975.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/4805757