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Issue: Vol. 5481 No. 2: 16 Jul. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-07-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5481.2.4
Page range: 241-259
Abstract views: 99
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Five new species of Heteropoda Latreille, 1804 spiders (Araneae: Sparassidae) from Southeast Asia

The State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering of China; School of Life Sciences; Hubei University; Wuhan 430062; Hubei; China
Senckenberg Research Institute; Arachnology; Mertonstraße 17–21; 60325 Frankfurt am Main; Germany
Araneae New species taxonomy huntsman spiders biodiversity

Abstract

Five new species of Heteropoda (Araneae: Sparassidae, Heteropodinae) from Southeast Asia are described: H. acris spec. nov. (male, female; Vietnam), H. cuspidata spec. nov. (male; Malaysia), H. papilionacea spec. nov. (female; Malaysia), H. pilata spec. nov. (female; Thailand), and H. verticalis spec. nov. (male; Malaysia). The female of H. jasminae Jäger, 2008 is described for the first time (locality: Vietnam). All these new species are diagnosed, described, and illustrated. Additionally, a distribution map for all species is given.

 

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