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Genus: Hippasa Simon, 1885 | Family: Lycosidae Sundevall, 1833

Hippasa himalayensis Gravely, 1924

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Described:

Distribution: Pakistan, India

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Lectotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India f (2268/18) - (Sankaran & Caleb, 2023a)
Paralectotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India ff - (Sankaran & Caleb, 2023a)

Taxonomic References

Hippasa himalayensis Gravely, 1924: 593, f. 1A (Df) Original description

Hippasa himalayensis Tikader & Malhotra, 1980: 281, f. 80-82 (f)

Hippasa himalayensis Sankaran & Caleb, 2023a: 119, f. 14A-D (f)

Hippasa himalayensis Jaffry, Butt & Zahra, 2025: 2083, f. 3A-F (f)

References

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

Jaffry, K. H., Butt, A. & Zahra, K. (2025). A new species of Prochora Simon, 1886 (Araneae: Miturgidae) and some new records of superfamily Lycosoidea (Araneae) from Margalla Hills National Park, Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 57(5): 2079-2087. doi: 10.17582/journal.pjz/20220525050526 -- 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 -- Show included taxa

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

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2025-07-22	New taxonomic reference entry	Jaffry, Butt & Zahra, 2025
2025-07-22	Species distribution update	Jaffry, Butt & Zahra, 2025	Old value
2023-01-26	New taxonomic reference entry	Sankaran & Caleb, 2023a