Five new species of the spider genus Heteropoda Latreille, 1804 (Araneae: Sparassidae) from China

Abstract

Five new species of Heteropoda (Araneae, Sparassidae, Heteropodinae) are described from China: H. bawanglingensis sp. nov. (female; Hainan), H. dulongensis sp. nov. (male, female; Yunnan), H. hainanensis sp. nov. (male, female; Hainan), H. longa sp. nov. (female; Guizhou), and H. vaginalis sp. nov. (female; Yunnan). We provide descriptions and illustrations for each species as well as a distribution map in the current paper.

Keywords

• taxonomy
• biodiversity
• new species
• sympatry
• huntsman spiders