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

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)
  • 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.

Author: Peter JÄGER

Access the paper here: https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/17826

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