Pseudopoda Jäger, 2000

Jäger, Peter, Li, Shuqiang & Krehenwinkel, Henrik, 2015, Morphological and molecular taxonomic analysis of Pseudopoda Jäger, 2000 (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae) in Sichuan Province, China, Zootaxa 3999 (3), pp. 363-392 : 365-366

Pseudopoda Jäger, 2000

Pseudopoda Jäger, 2000: 62 (description of genus). Jäger 2001: 24 (redescription of genus, description of 49 new species, redescription of 11 species, identification key for species-groups and species); Tang and Yin 2000: 274 (description of 1 new species from China: Hunan); Jäger and Ono 2001: 23 (first record from Taiwan, description of 2 new species); Jäger and Yin 2001: 126 (transfer of 2 species to Pseudopoda , listing of 14 nominal species for China); Jäger et al. 2002: 26 (description of 2 species); Jäger 2002: 57 (transfer of 2 species to Pseudopoda ); Jäger and Ono 2002: 109 (first record for Japan, description of 2 new species); Jäger and Vedel 2005: 2 (first record for Vietnam, description of 1 new species); Jäger et al. 2006: 220 (first record for Laos, description of 3 new species); Jäger 2007: 55 (description of 2 new species from Laos); Jäger and Vedel 2007: 3 (description of 15 new species from China: Yunnan; redescription of 1 species, transfer of 1 species to Pseudopoda ); Jäger 2008a: 46 (description of 1 new species from China: Yunnan); Jäger 2008b: 516 (description of 3 new species from India); Fu and Zhu 2008: 657 (description of 1 new species from Tibet); Jäger and Praxaysombath 2009: 44 (description of 1 new species from Laos); Yang et al. 2009: 18 (description of 2 new species from China: Yunnan); Sun and Zhang 2012: 25 (description of 1 new species from China: Yunnan); Zhang et al. 2013a: 274 (description of 4 new species from China: Yunnan); Zhang et al. 2013b: 39 (description of 4 new species from China: Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Chongqing); Quan et al. 2014: 556 (description of 3 new species from China: Hainan, Hubei); Jäger 2014: 184, 186 (transfer of 3 species to Pseudopoda ).

Modified diagnosis (after Jäger 2000). Male palp with membranous conductor (not sheath-like as in Heteropoda spp.), may be strongly reduced to an inconspicuous rest on tegulum (the latter state currently known only in one species: Pseudopoda wu spec. nov., Figs 115–117 ), embolus broadened (at least in its proximal part; not filiform as in Heteropoda spp.) and flattened, RTA arising in mesial or basal position (not in distal position as in Heteropoda spp.) ( Figs 1–2 ).

Distribution. South, East and parts of Southeast Asia: Pakistan to Japan, Korea to Sumatra.

Figures

FIGURES 115 – 123. Pseudopoda wu spec. nov., holotype male (115 – 119) and female paratype (120 – 123: PJ 3491) from Lugu Lake. 115 – 118 Male left palp (115 prolateral, 116 ventral, 117 retrolateral, 118 dorsal); 119 Embolus tip, ventral. 120 epigyne, ventral. 121, 123 Vulva (121 dorsal, 123 frontal). 122 Schematic course of internal duct system, dorsal. C—conductor.

FIGURES 1 – 7. Pseudopoda virgata from Baoxing County, copulatory organs of males (1 – 4 PJ 3519, 5 – 7 PJ 3488). 1 – 2, 5 Left male palp (1, 5 ventral, 2 retrolateral); 3, 6 tibia of left male palp (3 dorsal, 6 retrolateral); 4, 7 Embolus tip, ventral. dRTA—dorsal retrolateral tibial apophysis, EA—embolic apophysis, P—cymbial pit, vRTA—ventral retrolateral tibial apophysis, VTA—ventral tibial apophysis.