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Genus: Sinopoda Jäger, 1999 | Family: Sparassidae Bertkau, 1872

Sinopoda okinawana Jäger & Ono, 2000

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038166

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Described:

Distribution: Japan (Ryukyu Is.)

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Holotype: Department of Zoology of the National Museum of Nature and Science (NSMT-Ar), Tokyo, Japan m (4220) - (Jäger & Ono, 2000)
Paratype: Department of Zoology of the National Museum of Nature and Science (NSMT-Ar), Tokyo, Japan 1f (4221) - (Jäger & Ono, 2000)

Taxonomic References

Sinopoda okinawana Jäger & Ono, 2000: 51, f. 35-43 (Dmf) Original description

Sinopoda okinawana Ono, 2009a: 473, f. 31-34 (mf)

Sinopoda okinawana Suzuki, 2024d: 55, f. 1-4 (f)

Sinopoda okinawana Zhang et al., 2024e: S8, f. A8O-P, A9Q-R (mf)

References

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

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. (2024d). Predation of a juvenile heptathelid spider by a female Sinopoda okinawana (Araneae: Sparassidae). Kishidaia 124: 54-55. -- Show included taxa

Zhang, H., Zhong, Y., Zhu, Y., Wang, K., Yan, C., Agnarsson, I. & Liu, J. (2024e). The evolutionary history of Sinopoda spiders (Sparassidae: Heteropodinae): out of the Himalayas and down the mountain slopes. Ecography 2024(11, e06873): 1-15 & Suppl. doi: 10.1111/ecog.06873 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-01-23	New taxonomic reference entry	Suzuki, 2024d
2024-11-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Zhang et al., 2024e