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Genus: Hippasosa Roewer, 1960 | Family: Lycosidae Sundevall, 1833

Hippasosa ghost (Jocque & Jocqué, 2017)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049637

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Described:

Distribution: Madagascar

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium m (245337) - (Pett et al., 2025)
Paratype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium 2m 12f 29j (245338-245342, 245347-245348, 245350-245351, 245361) - (Jocque et al., 2017)
Paratype: Zoologie et Biodiversité Animale (ZBA), University of Antananarivo, Madagascar 2m 7f 5j - (Jocque et al., 2017)

Taxonomic References

Ocyale ghost Jocque & Jocqué in Jocque et al., 2017: 5, f. e-f, n, 3A-F, 4A-D, 5A-F, 6A-C, 7A-C (Dmf) Original description

Hippasosa ghost Sherwood, 2022c: 583 (T from Ocyale)

Hippasosa ghost Pett et al., 2025: 1259, f. 2A-F (m)

References

Jocque, M., Wellens, S., Andrianarivosoa, J. D., Rakotondraparany, F., The Seing, S. & Jocqué, R. (2017). A new species of Ocyale (Araneae, Lycosidae) from Madagascar, with first observations on the biology of a representative in the genus. European Journal of Taxonomy 355: 1-13. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2017.355 -- Show included taxa

Pett, B. L., Escobar-Toledo, J., Beer, L. de, Murray, K. I., Rakotorahalahy, M., Siméon, F. & Rivoson, J. L. (2025). First records of Hippasosa ghost (Jocque & Jocqué, 2017) (Araneae, Lycosidae) outside of the type locality in northwestern Madagascar. Check List 21(6): 1257-1261. doi: 10.15560/21.6.1257 -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D. (2022c). On the taxonomic and nomenclatural status of Ocyale Audouin, 1826 (Araneae: Pisauridae) and Hippasosa Roewer, 1960 (Araneae: Lycosidae), with notes on some other taxa. Arachnology 19(2): 582-584. doi: 10.13156/arac.2022.19.2.582 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2026-01-06	Type repository inserted	Jocque et al., 2017
2026-01-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Pett et al., 2025
2022-07-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood, 2022c
2022-07-11	Species transferred to new genus	Sherwood, 2022c	Species transferred from Ocyale to Hippasosa
2017-10-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Jocque et al., 2017
2017-10-06	New species inserted	Jocque et al., 2017