Five new Heteropoda species from Southeast Asia (Sparassidae: Heteropodinae)
Abstract
Five new species of the genus Heteropoda from Southeast Asia
are described: H. asa spec. nov. (Indonesia: Kalimantan; male),
H. dede spec. nov. (Malaysia: Sabah; female), H. josephkohi
spec. nov. (Brunei: Temburong; male, female), H. saracenoi
spec. nov. (Indonesia: Flores; male, female), and H. singaporensis spec. nov. (Singapore; male, female). Most of them exhibit
special palpal features like embolic apophyses or outgrowths,
conductor apophyses, additional RTA branches or, in one case, a
unique opisthosomal shape.
Jäger, P. (2024). Five new Heteropoda species from Southeast Asia (Sparassidae: Heteropodinae). Arachnology 19(8): 1100-1113.
