Abstract

Four new species of the huntsman spider genus Pseudopoda Jäger, 2000 are described from Southern China: Pseudopoda acuminata sp. n. from Suiyang County, Guizhou Province, P. emei sp. n. from Emei Mountain, Sichuan Province, P. lacrimosa sp. n. from Fugong County and Tengchong County, Yunnan Province, and P. robusta sp. n. fromJinyun Mountain, Chongqing Municipality.

Highlights

  • The members of the huntsman spider family Sparassidae Bertkau, 1872 are small to large sized spiders

  • Jäger and Vedel (2007) revised the genus Pseudopoda of Yunnan Province, China and described 15 new species, they discussed species groups proposed by Jäger (2001) with respect to the new results of their study

  • Several papers included transfers, twelve taxa were transferred from Heteropoda to Pseudopoda (Jäger 2000, 2001, 2002; Jäger and Yin 2001) and two taxa from Sinopoda to Pseudopoda (Jäger 2001; Jäger and Vedel 2007)

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Introduction

The members of the huntsman spider family Sparassidae Bertkau, 1872 are small to large sized spiders.

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