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

Heteropoda similaris Rainbow, 1898

SPECIES | NOMEN DUBIUM

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Described: j

Distribution: Papua New Guinea

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Syntype: Queensland Museum, Brisbane (QMB), Australia 2j (3522, 3523) - (Davies & Gallon, 1986)

Taxonomic References

Sarotes similaris Rainbow, 1898a: 346, pl. 7, f. 10 (Df) [females not adult per Davies & Gallon, 1986: 234] Original description

Olios similaris Roewer, 1955c: 703

Heteropoda similaris Bonnet, 1957: 2195

Heteropoda similaris Raven in Jäger, 2020c: 78 (T from Olios, nomen dubium)

References

Bonnet, P. (1957). Bibliographia araneorum. Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéologique jusqu'en 1939. Tome II. Systématique des araignées (Étude par ordre alphabétique) (3me partie: G-M). Douladoure, Toulouse, pp. 1927-3026. -- Show included taxa

Jäger, P. (2020c). The spider genus Olios Walckenaer, 1837 (Araneae: Sparassidae) – Part 1: species groups, diagnoses, identification keys, distribution maps and revision of the argelasius-, coenobitus- and auricomis-groups. Zootaxa 4866(1): 1-119. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4866.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Rainbow, W. J. (1898a). Contribution to a knowledge of the arachnidan fauna of British New Guinea. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 23: 328-356, pl. 7. -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1955c). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1751 pp. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2020-10-23	Taxon is nomen dubium	Jäger, 2020c	Heteropoda similaris (Rainbow, 1898) declared a nomen dubium
2020-10-23	New taxonomic reference entry	Jäger, 2020c
2020-10-23	Species transferred to new genus	Jäger, 2020c	Species transferred from Olios to Heteropoda