World Spider Catalog

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

Heteropoda namtha Jäger, Nophaseud & Moradmand, 2026

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066974

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Described:

Distribution: China, Laos

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany m (56264) - (Jäger, Nophaseud & Moradmand, 2026)
Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany 3f - (Jäger, Nophaseud & Moradmand, 2026)
Paratype: Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, National University of Laos (NUOL), Vientiane, Laos 1f - (Jäger, Nophaseud & Moradmand, 2026)

Taxonomic References

Heteropoda languida Korai & Wang, 2023b: 2, f. 1A-E, 2A-C, 3A-D, 4A-D (mf; misidentified per Jäger, Nophaseud & Moradmand, 2026: 31)

Heteropoda cf. languida Korai & Jäger, 2025a: 7, f. 4E-F, I, L (mf; misidentified per Jäger, Nophaseud & Moradmand, 2026: 31)

Heteropoda namtha Jäger, Nophaseud & Moradmand, 2026: 31, f. 120-127, 129-148, 150-162, 165-166 (Dmf) Original description

References

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

Korai, S. K. & Wang, K. (2023b). Newly discovered male of Heteropoda languida Simon, 1887 (Araneae: Sparassidae) in Yunnan, China. University of Sindh Journal of Animal Sciences 7(3): 1-10. doi: 10.57038/usjas.v7i03.6501 -- Show included taxa

Korai, S. K. & Jäger, P. (2025a). First molecular phylogeny of species of the genus Heteropoda (Sparassidae: Heteropodinae): implications for taxonomy. Insect Systematics and Diversity 9(4, 4): 1-14. doi: 10.1093/isd/ixaf010 [[N.B.: this is an electronic journal and an evidence for a Zoobank registration is missing, see ICZN Article 8.5.3; therefore the two described species are not valid.]] -- Show included taxa

Edit History

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