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Five new species of the spider genus Heteropoda Latreille, 1804 (Araneae: Sparassidae) from China

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Five new species of the spider genus Heteropoda Latreille, 1804 (Araneae: Sparassidae) from China


Abstract

Five new species of Heteropoda (Araneae, Sparassidae, Heteropodinae) are described from China: H. bawanglingensis sp. nov. (female; Hainan), H. dulongensis sp. nov. (male, female; Yunnan), H. hainanensis sp. nov. (male, female; Hainan), H. longa sp. nov. (female; Guizhou), and H. vaginalis sp. nov. (female; Yunnan). We provide descriptions and illustrations for each species as well as a distribution map in the current paper.

Korai, S. K., & Jäger, P. (2024). Five new species of the spider genus Heteropoda Latreille, 1804 (Araneae: Sparassidae) from China. European Journal of Taxonomy, 947(1), 109–129. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2024.947.2623