Hippasa haryanensis Arora & Monga 1994

Hippasa haryanensis Arora & Monga, 1994, nomen nudum

Hippasa haryanensis Arora & Monga, 1994: 74, figs 5–8 (♂ ♀).

Type material. Holotype ♀ from INDIA: Haryana: Hisar: Pigeon pea fields at Research Farm of Chaudhary Charan Singh (CCS) Haryana Agricultural University, 28 August 1989, P. Arora leg., repository unknown (no register number specified), not examined. Paratypes 10 ♂♂, 30 ♀♀, with the same data as holotype except 15 July 1989, 28 August 1989 and 20 September 1989, not examined. Allotype 1 ♂, with the same data as holotype, not examined.

Remarks. We were unable to examine the types of this species as no information is available about its repository (Arora & Monga 1994), and thus should be considered nomen nudum in the terms of art. 16.4 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999). The original description and genitalic illustrations of this smallsized species (body length: male 5.52, female 6.45) are poor and insufficiently informative to recognize it (Arora & Monga 1994: figs 5, 8). The original description of the female mentions that the sternum lacks the mid-longitudinal band (Arora & Monga 1994), indicating it may not be a member of Hippasa. Moreover, the median epigynal septum illustrated for this species (Arora & Monga 1994: fig. 8) indicates that it may be a member of either Ovia Sankaran, Malamel & Sebastian, 2017 or Trochosa C.L. Koch, 1847. The novelty and taxonomic placement of this species remain unchallenged until examination of its types or topotype specimens.