Bioacoustics of Evippa baltoroi

Distribution. India (Jammu & Kashmir, Caporiacco 1935 ). Notes. Examination of the types of P . baltoroi showed that this species does not belong to Acantholycosa , instead it is a member of the genus Evippa due to its genitalic similarities with that of Evippa arenaria (Audouin, 1826) , the type species of the genus: male palp with distal part of palea and most of the embolus covered by the tegulum, distoretrolaterally originating tegular apophysis with distoventral process, long conductor lying adjacent to and behind tegular apophysis, epigyne with a median septum and paired atria (compare Fig. 5A–D with Alderweireldt 1991 : fig. 2; Armiach Steinpress et al. 2021 : figs 6B, 10B). Additionally, highly elevated ocular area of this species due to the prominent transverse depression of carapace behind the ocular area, as proposed in Alderweireldt (1991 : fig. 1.2), also supports its transfer to Evippa ( Fig. 4A–B ). The transfer of A. baltoroi to Evippa confirms that the genus Acantholycosa is not recorded from India . Examination of the types of P . baltoroi also revealed that Buchar (1976) and the subsequent authors ( Chen et al. 1998 ; Song et al. 1999 , 2001 ; Marusik et al. 2004 ; Marusik & Omelko 2017 ; Zhang et al. 2022 ) misidentified this species, and the species described by these authors as ‘ A . baltoroi ’ indeed represents a different species of Acantholycosa . As a consequence, the baltoroi species group proposed by Marusik et al. (2004) should be renamed. In addition to the examined types, MSNM has several other syntypes for this species collected from various other glaciers of the Karakoram, but all are badly preserved (M. Zilioli, pers. comm.).