A new species and a new record of Zoicinae Lehtinen & Hippa, 1979 (Araneae: Lycosidae) from Sumatra Island, with notes on miniaturization in wolf spiders

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  A new species and a new record of Zoicinae Lehtinen & Hippa, 1979 (Araneae: Lycosidae) from Sumatra Island, with notes on miniaturization in wolf spiders Abstract A new species of wolf spider, Zoica veloxilla sp. nov., from Sumatra (Indonesia) is described based on both sexes. Lysania pygmaea Thorell, 1890 is recorded from Sumatra for the first time, and its male is illustrated and redescribed. A distribution map for Zoica and Lysania is provided. The problem of miniaturization in wolf spiders is briefly discussed. Based on an analysis of the literature, 32 minute species of wolf spiders in four subfamilies and eleven genera have been reported. The smallest wolf spider known worldwide seems to be Zoica minuta (McKay, 1979) from Australia. Omelko, M.M. & Fomichev, A.A. (2026) A new species and a new record of Zoicinae Lehtinen & Hippa, 1979 (Araneae: Lycosidae) from Sumatra Island, with notes on miniaturization in wolf spiders. Zootaxa, 5869 (2), 339–350. https://doi.o...

First record of Hippasa Simon 1885 (Araneae: Lycosidae) from Borneo, with the description of a new species

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First record of Hippasa Simon 1885 (Araneae: Lycosidae) from Borneo, with the description of a new species

Simon (1885) established the wolf spider genus Hippasa Simon, 1885 to accommodate the type species Hippasa agelenoides (Simon, 1884) as well as H. greenalliae (Blackwall, 1867) from India, the latter species currently regarded as a nomen dubium (Sankaran & Caleb 2023). To date, 27 valid species have been described in this genus, distributed across Africa and Asia (World Spider Catalog 2026). While the taxonomy of Hippasa is relatively well-studied among Asian lycosids, with recent regional revisions from China and India (Wang et al. 2015; Sankaran & Caleb 2023; Wang et al. 2026), its diversity in Southeast Asia remains incompletely documented and geographically scattered, particularly within the Sunda Shelf region. In Southeast Asia, confirmed records of Hippasa occur in Laos, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam (Thorell 1895; Barrion 1981; Wang et al. 2015; Omelko & Marusik 2020; Wang et al. 2026). An unconfirmed record of H. holmerae from East Java, Indonesia (Trisnawati et al. 2023) requires verification; consequently, the genus currently lacks confirmed records from Indonesia. The present paper represents the first confirmed record of Hippasa from both Indonesia and Borneo and includes the description of H. kalamanthana sp. nov.

Dhiya'ulhaq, NU & Rahmadi, C. (2026) First record of Hippasa Simon 1885 (Araneae: Lycosidae) from Borneo, with the description of a new species. Zootaxa , 5869 (2), 386–392. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5869.2.16