Taxon details

Family: Sparassidae / Genus: Heteropoda

Heteropoda afghana Roewer, 1962

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-11-02
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028832]
  • Distribution: Afghanistan, Pakistan, India
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museum of Zoology, Lund University (MZLU), Lund, Sweden; f (225:J) (Jäger et al., 2024)
Taxonomic references
Heteropoda afghana Roewer, 1962a: 7, f. 85-86 (Df).
Heteropoda afghana Jäger, 2005a: 90, f. 2-28 (f).
Heteropoda afghana Jäger et al., 2024: 1168, f. 1-8 (Dm).
References

Jäger, P. (2005a). New large-sized cave-dwelling Heteropoda species from Asia, with notes on their relationships (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 112(1): 87-114. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.80288 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Jäger, P., Zahid, M., Ali, P. A. & Sajid, M. (2024). New data on Heteropoda afghana Roewer, 1962 with the description of the previously unknown male (Sparassidae: Heteropodinae). Arachnology 19(9): 1168-1171. doi:10.13156/arac.2024.19.9.1168 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1962a). Araneae Dionycha aus Afghanistan II. Acta Universitatis Lundensis (N.F.) (2) 58(4): 1-34. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2024-11-02 New taxonomic reference entry Jäger et al., 2024 n/a
2024-11-02 First description of male Jäger et al., 2024 n/a (Old value)