Heteropoda simplex Jäger & Ono, 2000

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Described:

Distribution: Laos, China, Taiwan, Japan (Ryukyu Is.)

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Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Department of Zoology of the National Museum of Nature and Science (NSMT-Ar), Tokyo, Japan m (4217) - (Jäger & Ono, 2000)
  • Paratype: Department of Zoology of the National Museum of Nature and Science (NSMT-Ar), Tokyo, Japan 1m (4216) - (Jäger & Ono, 2000)
Taxonomic References
Heteropoda venatoria Jäger & Ono, 2000: 47, f. 20-21 (f; misidentified per Bayer & Jäger, 2009: 15)
Heteropoda simplex Jäger & Ono, 2000: 49, f. 25-26 (Dm) Original description
Heteropoda simplex Bayer & Jäger, 2009: 15, f. 73-111, 115 (m, Df)
Heteropoda simplex Ono, 2009a: 473, f. 20-21 (m)
Heteropoda simplex Suzuki et al., 2023: 50, f. 8A-E (mf)
Heteropoda simplex Suzuki & Nakama, 2023: 33, f. 1-2 (f)
Heteropoda simplex Korai & Wang, 2023a: 40, f. 5A-E, 6A-D, 13B (mf)
Heteropoda simplex Korai & Jäger, 2025a: 9, f. 6A-B, G, J (mf)
References

Bayer, S. & Jäger, P. (2009). Heteropoda species from limestone caves in Laos (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae). Zootaxa 2143: 1-23. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2143.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Jäger, P. & Ono, H. (2000). Sparassidae of Japan. I. New species of Olios, Heteropoda, and Sinopoda, with notes on some known species (Araneae: Sparassidae: Sparassinae and Heteropodinae). Acta Arachnologica 49(1): 41-60. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.49.41 -- Show included taxa

Korai, S. K. & Wang, K. (2023a). Six Heteropoda spiders (Araneae: Sparassidae) from Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, China. Plant Protection 7(1): 33-53. doi: 10.33804/pp.007.01.4452 -- 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

Ono, H. (2009a). The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, 739 pp. -- Show included taxa

Suzuki, Y., Noguchi, S., Osaki, H. & Tatsuta, H. (2023). Spiders (Araneae) collected from Kuchino-shima, Gaja-jima and Suwanosejima Islands, the Tokara Islands, Japan. Kagoshima Prefectural Museum Research Report 42(2022): 41-56. [[publ. March 2023]] -- Show included taxa

Suzuki, Y. & Nakama, N. (2023). First record of Heteropoda simplex from Ishigaki-jima Island, Okinawa, Japan. Kishidaia 123: 33-34. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-07-14 New taxonomic reference entry Korai & Jäger, 2025a
2025-01-21 New taxonomic reference entry Suzuki & Nakama, 2023
2024-08-29 New taxonomic reference entry Suzuki et al., 2023
2023-05-02 New taxonomic reference entry Korai & Wang, 2023a
2023-05-02 Species distribution update Korai & Wang, 2023a Old value
2014-07-07 Species distribution update Jäger, 2014b Old value

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