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

Heteropoda steineri Bayer & Jäger, 2009

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042481

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Described:

Distribution: Laos

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Type Repository Provide information

Paratype: Naturalis, National Museum of Natural History (RMNH), Leiden, Netherlands Heteropoda steineri Bayer & Jäger, 2009; 1m, 1f -
Paratype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK Heteropoda steineri Bayer & Jäger, 2009; 1f -
Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland Heteropoda steineri Bayer & Jäger, 2009; 1m, 2f -
Paratype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA Heteropoda steineri Bayer & Jäger, 2009; 1f -
Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) Heteropoda steineri Bayer & Jäger, 2009, 1 m (58903-133) -
Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) Heteropoda steineri Bayer & Jäger, 2009, 1 f (58904-133); 1 m (58905-133); 1 f (58906-133); 1 f (58907-133); 1 f (58908-133); 1 f (58909-133); 1 m (58910-133); 1 f (58911-133); 1 f (58912-133); 2 f (58913-133); 1 f (58914-133); 1 f (58915-133) -
Paratype: Department of Zoology of the National Museum of Nature and Science (NSMT-Ar), Tokyo, Japan Heteropoda steineri Bayer & Jäger, 2009; 1f -

Taxonomic References

Heteropoda steineri Bayer & Jäger, 2009: 7, f. 29-50, 113-114 (Dmf) Original description

Heteropoda steineri Korai & Jäger, 2025a: 9, f. 6E-F, I, L (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

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

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Edit History

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