World Spider Catalog

Genus: Heteropoda Latreille, 1804 | Family: Sparassidae Bertkau, 1872

Heteropoda aemulans Bayer & Jäger, 2009

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042482

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Described:

Distribution: Laos

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany m (58927) - (Bayer & Jäger, 2009)
Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany 12f (58928-58939) - (Bayer & Jäger, 2009)
Paratype: Department of Zoology of the National Museum of Nature and Science (NSMT-Ar), Tokyo, Japan 1f - (Bayer & Jäger, 2009)

Taxonomic References

Heteropoda aemulans Bayer & Jäger, 2009: 11, f. 51-72, 116-117 (Dmf) Original description

Heteropoda aemulans Jäger, Nophaseud & Moradmand, 2026: 40, f. 171-185 (f)

References

Bayer, S. & Jäger, P. (2009). Heteropoda species from limestone caves in Laos (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae). Zootaxa 2143: 1-23. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2143.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Jäger, P., Nophaseud, L. & Moradmand, M. (2026). Revision of the spider genus Heteropoda (Sparassidae: Heteropodinae) from Laos. Zootaxa 5797(1): 1-84. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5797.1.1 [[Zoobank: 0F90D039-E2EA-462E-890B-4D218A3E8BE2]] -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2026-04-23	New taxonomic reference entry	Jäger, Nophaseud & Moradmand, 2026