Taxon details

Family: Lycosidae / Genus: Hippasa

Hippasa deserticola Simon, 1889

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-01-26
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053517]
  • Distribution: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany; f (9910481) of Trochosa loeffleri (Marusik & Nadolny, 2021)
  • Holotype: Museum of Zoology, Lund University (MZLU), Lund, Sweden; f (lost) of Hippasa afghana (Marusik & Nadolny, 2021)
  • Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium; m (204210) of Hippasa sinai (Alderweireldt & Jocqué, 2005)
  • Holotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; f of Hippasa charamaensis (Sankaran & Caleb, 2023a)
  • Holotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; f (4665/18) of Hippasa madhuae (Sankaran & Caleb, 2023a)
  • Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); 1f (9913330) of Hippasa afghana
  • Paratype: Museum of Zoology, Lund University (MZLU), Lund, Sweden; 1f (lost) of Hippasa afghana (Marusik & Nadolny, 2021)
  • Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; 1m 1f (Marusik & Nadolny, 2021)
  • Allotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; m (4666/18) of Hippasa madhuae (Sankaran & Caleb, 2023a)
Taxonomic references
Hippasa deserticola Simon, 1889l: 377 (Dmf).
Hippasa pisaurina Pocock, 1900a: 250 (Df).
Hippasa pisaurina Gravely, 1924: 595, f. 1H (f).
Hippasa pisaurina Dyal, 1935: 143, pl. 13, f. 48 (f).
Trochosa löffleri Roewer, 1955a: 771, f. 22 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017911].
Hippasa afghana Roewer, 1960c: 33, f. 25a-b (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017890].
Hippasa löffleri Roewer, 1960c: 34 (Tf from Trochosa).
Hippasa madhuae Tikader & Malhotra, 1980: 298, f. 106-110 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017914].
Hippasa pisaurina Tikader & Malhotra, 1980: 300, f. 111-115 (mf).
Trochosa loeffleri Brignoli, 1983c: 459.
Hippasa charamaensis Gajbe, 2004c: 5, f. 1-5 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017920].
Hippasa sinai Alderweireldt & Jocqué, 2005: 61, f. 38-39 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040080].
Hippasa pisaurina Gajbe, 2007: 497, f. 230-234 (mf).
Hippasa pisaurina Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2007: 245, f. 21-27 (mf).
Hippasa sinai Alderweireldt, Al-Ghamdy & Faragalla, 2017: 217, f. 2 (Df).
Hippasa pisaurina Najim, Seyyar & Demir, 2019: 190, f. 2A-D (f).
Hippasa deserticola Marusik & Nadolny, 2021: 224, f. 1A-D, 2A-H, 3A-G, 4A-I (mf, removed from S of Hippasa partita, S of H. afghana and H. loeffleri).
Hippasa pisaurina Marusik & Nadolny, 2021: 228, f. 8A-E (mf, probably S of Hippasa deserticola).
Hippasa madhuae Marusik & Nadolny, 2021: 228, f. 8F-J (mf, probably S of Hippasa deserticola).
Hippasa deserticola Sankaran & Caleb, 2023a: 114, f. 10A-B, 11A-G, 12A-B, 13A-D (mf, S of Hippasa charamaensis, H. madhuae, H. pisaurina and H. sinai).
References

Alderweireldt, M. & Jocqué, R. (2005). A taxonomic review of the Afrotropical representatives of the genus Hippasa (Araneae, Lycosidae). Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 2: 45-68. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Alderweireldt, M., Al-Ghamdy, K. M. & Faragalla, A. (2017). Arabian wolf spiders: description of the unknown female of Hippasa sinai Alderweireldt & Jocqué, 2005 (Araneae: Lycosidae). Bulletin de la Société Royale Belge d'Entomologie 153: 215-218. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Biswas, V. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2007). New record of wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae) of the genus Hippasa Simon from Bangladesh. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 104: 240-246. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Brignoli, P. M. (1983c). A catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press, 755 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dyal, S. (1935). Fauna of Lahore. 4.–Spiders of Lahore. Bulletin of the Department of Zoology of the Panjab University 1: 119-252, pl. 11-17. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gajbe, U. A. (2004c). Studies on some spiders of the family Lycosidae (Araneae: Arachnida) from Madhya Pradesh, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 221: 1-40. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gajbe, U. A. (2007). Araneae: Arachnida. In: Fauna of Madhya Pradesh (including Chhattisgarh), State Fauna Series. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata 15(1), 419-540. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gravely, F. H. (1924). Some Indian spiders of the family Lycosidae. Records of the Indian Museum, Calcutta 26: 587-613. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M. & Nadolny, A. A. (2021). Redescription of Hippasa deserticola, the northernmost species of Hippasa (Aranei: Lycosidae), with taxonomic notes on other species of the genus. Zoosystematica Rossica 30(2): 222-235. doi:10.31610/zsr/2021.30.2.222 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Najim, S. A., Seyyar, O. & Demir, H. (2019). Second record of Hippasa pisaurina Pocock, 1900 (Araneae: Lycosidae) from Iraq. Serket 16(4): 188-190. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1900a). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Arachnida. Taylor and Francis, London, 279 pp. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.48423 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1960c). Lycosidae aus Afghanistan (Araneae). Acta Universitatis Lundensis (N.F.) (2) 56(17): 1-34. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1955a). Die Araneen der Österreichischen Iran-Expedition 1949/50. Sitzungsberichte der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (I) 164: 751-782. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sankaran, P. M. & Caleb, J. T. D. (2023a). Notes on Indian wolf spiders: II. Genus Hippasa Simon, 1885 (Araneae: Lycosidae, Hippasinae). Zootaxa 5230(2): 101-152. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5230.2.1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1889l). Arachnidae transcaspicae ab ill. Dr. G. Radde, Dr. A. Walter et A. Conchin inventae (annis 1886-1887). Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 39: 373-386. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tikader, B. K. & Malhotra, M. S. (1980). Lycosidae (wolf-spiders). Fauna India (Araneae) 1: 248-447. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-01-26 Species synonymy Sankaran & Caleb, 2023a Hippasa sinai synonymized with Hippasa deserticola
2023-01-26 Species synonymy Sankaran & Caleb, 2023a Hippasa madhuae synonymized with Hippasa deserticola
2023-01-26 Species synonymy Sankaran & Caleb, 2023a Hippasa charamaensis synonymized with Hippasa deserticola
2023-01-26 Species synonymy Sankaran & Caleb, 2023a Hippasa pisaurina synonymized with Hippasa deserticola
2023-01-26 New taxonomic reference entry Sankaran & Caleb, 2023a n/a
2023-01-26 Species distribution update Sankaran & Caleb, 2023a n/a (Old value)
2021-11-09 Species synonymy Marusik & Nadolny, 2021 Hippasa loeffleri synonymized with Hippasa deserticola
2021-11-09 Species synonymy Marusik & Nadolny, 2021 Hippasa afghana synonymized with Hippasa deserticola
2021-11-09 New taxonomic reference entry Marusik & Nadolny, 2021 n/a
2021-11-09 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon n/a (Old value)
2021-11-09 Species updated Marusik & Nadolny, 2021 Removed synonymy (Old value)