World Spider Catalog

Genus: Heteropoda Latreille, 1804 | Family: Sparassidae Bertkau, 1872

Heteropoda afghana Roewer, 1962

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028832

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Described:

Distribution: Afghanistan, Pakistan, India

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Holotype: Museum of Zoology, Lund University (MZLU), Lund, Sweden f (225:J) - (Jäger et al., 2024)

Taxonomic References

Heteropoda afghana Roewer, 1962a: 7, f. 85-86 (Df) Original description

Heteropoda afghana Jäger, 2005a: 90, f. 2-28 (f)

Heteropoda afghana Jäger et al., 2024: 1168, f. 1-8 (Dm)

References

Jäger, P. (2005a). New large-sized cave-dwelling Heteropoda species from Asia, with notes on their relationships (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 112(1): 87-114. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.80288 -- Show included taxa

Jäger, P., Zahid, M., Ali, P. A. & Sajid, M. (2024). New data on Heteropoda afghana Roewer, 1962 with the description of the previously unknown male (Sparassidae: Heteropodinae). Arachnology 19(9): 1168-1171. doi: 10.13156/arac.2024.19.9.1168 -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1962a). Araneae Dionycha aus Afghanistan II. Acta Universitatis Lundensis (N.F.) (2) 58(4): 1-34. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2024-11-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Jäger et al., 2024
2024-11-02	First description of male	Jäger et al., 2024	Old value