World Spider Catalog

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

Sinopoda tumefacta Zhong, Jäger, Chen & Liu, 2019

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051176

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Described:

Distribution: China

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Centre for Behavioral Ecology and Evolution (CBEE), College of Life Sciences [= Museum of Hubei University (MHU)], Hubei University, Wuhan, China m - (Zhong et al., 2019)
Paratype: Centre for Behavioral Ecology and Evolution (CBEE), College of Life Sciences [= Museum of Hubei University (MHU)], Hubei University, Wuhan, China 12m 13f - (Zhong et al., 2019)
Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany 1m 1f - (Zhong et al., 2019)

Taxonomic References

Sinopoda tumefacta Zhong et al., 2019: 69, f. 53A-E, 54A-F, 55A-D (Dmf) Original description

Sinopoda tumefacta Zhang et al., 2021b: 11, f. 5C, G, I-J (mf)

Sinopoda tumefacta Zhang et al., 2024e: S13, f. A13E-F, A14A-B (mf)

Sinopoda tumefacta Zhang et al., 2026b: 316, f. 9A-F, 10A-D (mf)

References

Zhang, H., Zhong, Y., Zhu, Y., Agnarsson, I. & Liu, J. (2021b). A molecular phylogeny of the Chinese Sinopoda spiders (Sparassidae, Heteropodinae): implications for taxonomy. PeerJ 9(e11775): 1-26. doi: 10.7717/peerj.11775 -- 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

Zhang, C. W., Xing, Y. Q., Zhong, Y. & Yu, H. (2026b). Huntsman spiders of the genus Sinopoda (Araneae, Sparassidae, Heteropodinae) from the Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwestern China, with descriptions of two new species. ZooKeys 1280: 301-320. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1280.183824 [[Zoobank: 00A3228C-A0F7-4565-B89B-7D9B2FB9B00C]] -- Show included taxa

Zhong, Y., Jäger, P., Chen, J. & Liu, J. (2019). Taxonomic study of Sinopoda spiders from China (Araneae: Sparassidae). Zootaxa 4607(1): 1-81. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4607.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference
2026-05-30	New taxonomic reference entry	Zhang et al., 2026b
2024-11-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Zhang et al., 2024e
2021-08-22	New taxonomic reference entry	Zhang et al., 2021b
2019-05-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Zhong et al., 2019
2019-05-17	New species inserted	Zhong et al., 2019