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

Heteropoda squamacea Wang, 1990

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028970

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Described:

Distribution: China

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Hunan Biology Research Institute (HBI), Changsha, China m (in HNU per Jäger pers. comm.) - (Wang, 1990c)
Paratype: Hunan Biology Research Institute (HBI), Changsha, China 2f (in HNU, with additional 1j, per Jäger pers. comm.) - (Wang, 1990c)
Holotype: Museum of Hebei University (MHBU), Baoding, China Heteropoda bifurcuta Wang, Chen & Zhu, 2002; m -
Allotype: Hunan Biology Research Institute (HBI), Changsha, China f - (Wang, 1990c)

Taxonomic References

Heteropoda squamacea Wang, 1990c: 8, f. 9-10 (Dm; f see Heteropoda venatoria) Original description

Heteropoda squamacea Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 468, f. 268R, 269A (m, presumably not f)

Heteropoda bifurcuta Wang, Chen & Zhu, 2002: 19, f. 1-5 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039021]

Heteropoda squamacea Liu, Li & Jäger, 2008b: 65, f. 1-8 (m, Df, S of Heteropoda bifurcuta)

Heteropoda squamacea Jäger, 2008d: 294, f. 340-349 (mf)

Heteropoda squamacea Korai & Jäger, 2025a: 10, f. 7C-C (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

Liu, J., Li, S. Q. & Jäger, P. (2008b). The true female of Heteropoda squamacea Wang, 1990 (Araneae: Sparassidae). Zootaxa 1909: 65-68. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.1909.1.6 -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa

Wang, J. F. (1990c). Six new species of the spiders of the genus Heteropoda from China (Araneae: Heteropodidae). Sichuan Journal of Zoology 9(3): 7-11. -- Show included taxa

Wang, H. H., Chen, H. M. & Zhu, M. S. (2002). A new species of the genus Heterpoda [sic] from China (Araneae: Sparassidae). Journal of Baoding Teachers College 15: 18-19. -- 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