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

Shakal Khan KORAI & Peter JÄGER

en European Journal of Taxonomy 947 (109) - Pages 109-129

Published on 02 August 2024

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.


Keywords:

Taxonomy, biodiversity, new species, sympatry, huntsman spiders

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