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Issue: Vol. 3754 No. 5: 17 Jan. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2015-01-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3754.5.2
Page range: 555–571
Abstract views: 66
PDF downloaded: 2

Four Pseudopoda species (Araneae: Sparassidae) from southern China

Centre for Behavioural Ecology and Evolution, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, Hubei, China
Centre for Behavioural Ecology and Evolution, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, Hubei, China
Centre for Behavioural Ecology and Evolution, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, Hubei, China
taxonomy biodiversity systematics huntsman spiders

Abstract

Four species of the genus Pseudopoda are recorded from southern China. Three new species are described: Pseudopoda bicruris sp. nov. (male, female; Hainan Province), Pseudopoda mediana sp. nov. (male, female; Hainan Province), Pseudopoda tiantangensis sp. nov. (male, female; Hubei Province). The female of Pseudopoda lushanensis (Wang, 1990) from Jiangxi Province is described for the first time.