Pseudopoda rivicola Jäger and Vedel, 2007

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 : 383-384

Pseudopoda rivicola Jäger and Vedel, 2007

Figs 110–114 , 130

Pseudopoda rivicola Jäger and Vedel, 2007: 27 , figs 97–104, 137 (Description of male and female; holotype male, male and female paratypes from China, Yunnan, Cangshan; deposited in SMF and IZCAS, examined).

Note. Jäger and Vedel (2007) illustrated only specimens from Yunnan. Here, the only known male from Sichuan is shown ( Figs 110–114 ). There is almost no variation in the palp between the male from Yunnan and the present male.

Material examined. China: Sichuan: 1 male (PJ 1811), Emeishan, river below Wannian cableway valley station [29°35'52.42"N, 103°22'39.10"E, 750 m], under stones, P. Jäger leg., by hand, at day, 22 March 1999 ( SMF).

Diagnosis. See Jäger and Vedel (2007).

Distribution. China: Yunnan (Cangshan), Sichuan (Emeishan) ( Fig. 130 ).

Figures

FIGURE 130. Map of Sichuan with records of Pseudopoda spp. (Pseudopoda sp. cf. yunnanensis not mapped). Pseudopoda grahami (Fox, 1936) and P. exigua (Fox, 1938) are included as described from Sichuan although no new records are known and therefore not mentioned in the text.

FIGURES 110 – 114. Pseudopoda rivicola, male from Emeishan. 110 – 112 Male left palp (110 prolateral, 111 ventral, 112 retrolateral). 113 Prosoma, dorsal. 114 Sternum, ventral.