Taxon details

Family: Sparassidae / Genus: Heteropoda

Heteropoda megalopis (Thorell, 1891)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: nomen dubium
  • Described: j
  • Last updated: 2023-04-20
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029529]
  • Distribution: India (Nicobar Is.)
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Zoological Museum of Natural History, University of Copenhagen (ZMUC), Denmark; Spariolenus megalopis Thorell, 1891; juv.
Taxonomic references
Spariolenus megalopis Thorell, 1891: 77 (Dj).
Spariolenus megalopis Jäger, 2002b: 58, f. 132-133 (j).
Heteropoda megalopis Jäger, 2014b: 164 (T from Spariolenus, nomen dubium).
References

Jäger, P. (2002b). Heteropodinae: transfers and synonymies (Arachnida: Araneae: Sparassidae). Acta Arachnologica 51(1): 33-61. doi:10.2476/asjaa.51.33 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Jäger, P. (2014b). Heteropoda Latreille, 1804: new species, synonymies, transfers and records (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae). Arthropoda Selecta 23(2): 145-188. doi:10.15298/arthsel.23.2.06 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1891). Spindlar från Nikobarerna och andra delar af södra Asien. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 24(2): 1-149. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2014-07-07 New taxonomic reference entry Jäger, 2002b n/a
2014-07-07 Taxon is nomen dubium Jäger, 2014b Heteropoda megalopis (Thorell, 1891) declared a nomen dubium
2014-07-07 Species transferred to new genus Jäger, 2014b Species transferred from Spariolenus to Heteropoda