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 : 380-381

Pseudopoda sp.

Figs 91–92 , 130

Material examined. China: Sichuan: 1 female (PJ 3512), Xiangcheng, Leng Long Cun [ca. 28°58'13.90"N, 99°46'6.27"E, 3200 m], 26 June 1982, SD 1255 ( IZCAS #142).

Notes. From the ventral windings ( Fig. 91 ) and other characters as size, colouration, spination etc. it could well be considered as intraspecific variation within either P. signata or P. yunnanensis . Since it was recorded c. 250 km WSW of Kangding (type locality of P. signata ) and c. 360 km N of Dali, Cangshan (type locality of P.

yunnanensis ) and no fresh molecular sample or a conspecific male was available, it cannot be identified to species level.

Distribution. China: Sichuan. Known only from one locality in SW Sichuan ( Fig. 130 : cf. yunnanensis / signata ).

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 87 – 92. 87 – 90 Pseudopoda signata from Yanzi Gou (87 – 90: PJ 3510 – 3511, 3800 m elevation). 91 – 92 Pseudopoda sp. from Leng Long Cun (PJ 3512, ca. 3200 m elevation). 87, 89, 91 Epigyne, ventral; 88, 90, 92 Vulva, dorsal.