Five new Heteropoda species from Southeast Asia (Sparassidae: Heteropodinae)

 

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.