Revision of the huntsman spider genus Heteropoda Latreille 1804: Species with exceptional male palpal conformations from Southeast Asia and Australia (Arachnida, Araneae, Sparassidae, Heteropodinae)

Senckenbergiana Biologica

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 239-310

  Jäger, Peter ^a  

^a SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Character evolution; Copulatory organs; Diversifying type; Dorsal tegular apophysis; Lengthening type; Systematics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; SPIDER; TAXONOMY;

ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

ARACHNIDA; ARANEAE; HETEROPODA (SPIDER); SPARASSIDAE;

EID: 58949090653     PISSN: 00372102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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