Heteropoda amphora Fox, 1936

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028837

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Described:

Distribution: China

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  • Holotype: National Museum of Natural History = United States National Museum (USNM), Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA f (1152) - (Fox, 1936)
Taxonomic References
Heteropoda amphora Fox, 1936: 125, f. 1 (Df) Original description
Heteropoda amphora Zhang, 1998: 114, f. e-i (Dm, f; see also Heteropoda zhangi)
Heteropoda amphora Jäger, 2001b: 22, f. 16h-j (f)
Heteropoda amphora Cao et al., 2025: 189, f. 5A-D, 6A-D (f)
Heteropoda amphora Korai & Jäger, 2025a: 10, f. 7I, L (f)
References

Cao, R., Zhang, H., Liu, J., Wang, G. B. & Hu, C. H. (2025). A record of two sparassid species (Araneae: Sparassidae) in the Jiangxi Guanshan National Nature Reserve. Sichuan Journal of Zoology 44(2): 184-193. doi: 10.11984/j.issn.1000-7083.20240356 -- Show included taxa

Fox, I. (1936). Chinese spiders of the families Agelenidae, Pisauridae and Sparassidae. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 26: 121-128. -- Show included taxa

Jäger, P. (2001b). Diversität der Riesenkrabbenspinnen im Himalaya -- die Radiation zweier Gattungen in den Schneetropen (Araneae, Sparassidae, Heteropodinae). Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 232: 1-136. -- Show included taxa

Korai, S. K. & Jäger, P. (2025a). First molecular phylogeny of species of the genus Heteropoda (Sparassidae: Heteropodinae): implications for taxonomy. Insect Systematics and Diversity 9(4, 4): 1-14. doi: 10.1093/isd/ixaf010 [[N.B.: this is an electronic journal and an evidence for a Zoobank registration is missing, see ICZN Article 8.5.3; therefore the two described species are not valid.]] -- Show included taxa

Zhang, Y. J. (1998). Supplemental descriptions of two spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 7(2): 113-116. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.47.113 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-07-14 New taxonomic reference entry Korai & Jäger, 2025a
2025-04-12 New taxonomic reference entry Cao et al., 2025

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