Pseudopoda Jäger, 2000

Pseudopoda Jäger, 2000: 62 (description of genus). Jäger 2001: 24 (redescription of genus, description of 49 new species, redescription of 11 species, identification key for species-groups and species); Tang and Yin 2000: 274 (description of 1 new species from China: Hunan); Jäger and Ono 2001: 23 (first record from Taiwan, description of 2 new species); Jäger and Yin 2001: 126 (transfer of 2 species to Pseudopoda, listing of 14 nominal species for China); Jäger et al. 2002: 26 (description of 2 species); Jäger 2002: 57 (transfer of 2 species to Pseudopoda); Jäger and Ono 2002: 109 (first record for Japan, description of 2 new species); Jäger and Vedel 2005: 2 (first record for Vietnam, description of 1 new species); Jäger et al. 2006: 220 (first record for Laos, description of 3 new species); Jäger 2007: 55 (description of 2 new species from Laos); Jäger and Vedel 2007: 3 (description of 15 new species from China: Yunnan; redescription of 1 species, transfer of 1 species to Pseudopoda); Jäger 2008a: 46 (description of 1 new species from China: Yunnan); Jäger 2008b: 516 (description of 3 new species from India); Fu and Zhu 2008: 657 (description of 1 new species from Tibet); Jäger and Praxaysombath 2009: 44 (description of 1 new species from Laos); Yang et al. 2009: 18 (description of 2 new species from China: Yunnan); Sun and Zhang 2012: 25 (description of 1 new species from China: Yunnan); Zhang et al. 2013a: 274 (description of 4 new species from China: Yunnan); Zhang et al. 2013b: 39 (description of 4 new species from China: Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Chongqing); Quan et al. 2014: 556 (description of 3 new species from China: Hainan, Hubei); Jäger 2014: 184, 186 (transfer of 3 species to Pseudopoda).

Modified diagnosis (after Jäger 2000). Male palp with membranous conductor (not sheath-like as in Heteropoda spp.), may be strongly reduced to an inconspicuous rest on tegulum (the latter state currently known only in one species: Pseudopoda wu spec. nov., Figs 115–117), embolus broadened (at least in its proximal part; not filiform as in Heteropoda spp.) and flattened, RTA arising in mesial or basal position (not in distal position as in Heteropoda spp.) (Figs 1–2).

Distribution. South, East and parts of Southeast Asia: Pakistan to Japan, Korea to Sumatra.