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Issue: Vol. 5244 No. 2: 17 Feb. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-02-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5244.2.6
Page range: 182-190
Abstract views: 198
PDF downloaded: 32

Two new huntsman spiders from Xiaolong Mountains in Gansu Province, China (Araneae, Sparassidae)

Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application of Hebei Province, Institute of Life Science and Green Development, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China
Biochemistry and Environmental Engineering College, Baoding University, Baoding, 071051, P. R. China.
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application of Hebei Province, Institute of Life Science and Green Development, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China
New species Southeast Asia taxonomy Araneae

Abstract

Two new species of the sparassid genera Pseudopoda Jäger, 2000 and Sinopoda Jäger, 1999 are described from Xiaolong Mountains, Gansu, China: Pseudopoda tricuspidata sp. n. (♂♀) and Sinopoda subcampanacea sp. n. (♂♀). Photos of habitus and genitalia are provided.

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