A new species of Pseudopoda (Araneae, Sparassidae) from China, with the description of different and distinctive internal ducts of the female vulva

By

Gong, Lijun
Zeng, Mengyun
Zhong, Yang
Yu, Huiliang

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2023

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1159

Pages

189--199

Subjects

DNA barcoding , Hubei , huntsman spiders , Morphology , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1159.97463

 

Abstract

One new species of the genus Pseudopoda Jäger, 2000, Pseudopoda deformis Gong & Zhong, sp. nov. (♂, ♀), is described and documented with digital images from Shennongjia Forestry District, Hubei Province, China, based on morphology and DNA barcodes. This new species is separated from other Pseudopoda species by the unique type of internal ducts of the female vulva that are curved longitudinally, forming a narrow triangle or trapezoidal shape. In addition, DNA barcodes for this species are provided.