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

Heteropoda pingtungensis Zhu & Tso, 2006

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040688

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Described:

Distribution: China, Taiwan

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: National Museum of Natural Science (NMNS), Taichung, Taiwan Heteropoda pingtungensis Zhu & Tso, 2006, (01-0112); m -
Paratype: National Museum of Natural Science (NMNS), Taichung, Taiwan Heteropoda pingtungensis Zhu & Tso, 2006, (01-0114); 1f -

Taxonomic References

Heteropoda pingtungensis Zhu & Tso, 2006: 267, f. 7-12 (Dmf) Original description

Heteropoda pingtungensis Jäger, 2008d: 265, f. 164-174 (mf)

Heteropoda pingtungensis Korai & Jäger, 2025a: 6, f. 3E-F (m)

References

Jäger, P. (2008d). Revision of the huntsman spider genus Heteropoda Latreille 1804: species with exceptional male palpal conformations from Southeast Asia and Australia (Arachnida, Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 88: 239-310. -- 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

Zhu, M. S. & Tso, I. M. (2006). Two new species of the family Sparassidae from Taiwan, with description of the female of Olios scalptor (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 13: 267-270. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-07-14	New taxonomic reference entry	Korai & Jäger, 2025a