Pseudopoda

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 : 382-383

Pseudopoda sp. cf. yunnanensis ( Yang & Hu, 2001)

Figs 108–109 , 130

Material examined. China: Sichuan: 1 male (PJ 3508), Gongga Shan, west slopes, Chanzhu Tang leg., July[?] 1983, SD 1255 ( IZCAS).

Notes. Pseudopoda yunnanensis was described in the genus Sinopoda by Yang and Hu (2001) and transferred to Pseudopoda by Jäger and Vedel (2007; type material not available). Yang and Chen (2008) described the female for the first time and illustrated both sexes with their copulatory organs as well as with photos of their dorsal habitus. Pseudopoda yunnanensis certainly belongs into one lineage with P. signata according to the very similar palpal structures (shape of embolus, shape of RTA; Figs 107–109 ), P. yinae might also belong into this group. Considering the complex diversity, i.e. closely related species with only tiny morphological differences (see diagnosis under P. signata ) and the fact that there are differences in the palp of the present specimen and the original illustrations of the type material, we refrain from identifying the present specimen to species level. Specimen not mapped due to lacking coordinates.

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 107 – 109. Pseudopoda sp. cf. yunnanensis from west slopes of Gonggashan, male left palp (107 ventral, 108 retrolateral, 109 dorsal).