Pseudopoda Jäger, 2000

Gong, Li-jun, Zeng, Meng-yun, Zhong, Yang & Yu, Hui-liang, 2023, A new species of Pseudopoda (Araneae, Sparassidae) from China, with the description of different and distinctive internal ducts of the female vulva, ZooKeys 1159, pp. 189-199 : 189

Genus Pseudopoda Jäger, 2000

Type species.

Sarotes promptus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885.

Diagnosis (updated).

Pseudopoda was defined by Jäger (2000) according to the following combination of characters: male palp (Fig. 1A-C ) with membranous conductor or absent, embolus arising on the left side of the tegulum and generally curved, RTA arising from tibia, basally or mesially and furcate or not; epigyne (Fig. 2A-C ) with lateral lobes extending beyond epigastric furrow, and generally covering median septum (modified from Jäger 2000; Zhang et al. 2013; Jiang et al. 2018).

Distribution.

Bhutan, China, Nepal, India, Japan, Laos, Myanmar, Pakistan, Thailand and Vietnam.

Figures

Figure 1. Pseudopoda deformis Gong & Zhong, sp. nov., male holotype (HUST-SPA- 22 - 001), left palp (A-C), left male palpal tibia (D), and cheliceral dentition (E, F). A prolateral view B ventral view C, D retrolateral view E male, ventral view F female, ventral view. Abbreviations: C = conductor; dRTA = dorsal branch of RTA; vRTA = ventral branch of RTA; E = embolus; Sp = spermophore; T = tegulum. Scale bars: 1 mm (A-C); 0.1 mm (D); 0.5 mm (E, F).

Figure 2. Pseudopoda deformis Gong & Zhong, sp. nov., female paratype (A, D HUST-SPA- 22 - 002; B, E HUST-SPA- 22 - 003; C, F HUST-SPA- 22 - 004), epigyne (A-C), vulva (D-F), and schematic course of internal duct system (G-I). A-C ventral view D-F dorsal view. Abbreviations: CO = copulatory opening; FD = fertilisation duct; FW = first winding; LL = lateral lobes. Scale bars: 1 mm (A-F).