An unexpected new species of the genus Pseudopoda (Araneae, Sparassidae, Heteropodinae) from the Western Ghats in India

Abstract. A new species of the genus Pseudopoda is described from India: Pseudopoda ashcharya sp. n. Males are characterised by the absence of the conductor and females are unique within the genus in having the lateral lobes of their epigyne fused. The systematic relationship of the new species is d...

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Autores principales: Jäger, Peter, Kulkarni, Siddharth
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Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4829884/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27110189
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.577.7848
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description Abstract. A new species of the genus Pseudopoda is described from India: Pseudopoda ashcharya sp. n. Males are characterised by the absence of the conductor and females are unique within the genus in having the lateral lobes of their epigyne fused. The systematic relationship of the new species is discussed referring to its isolated occurrence in the Western Ghats.
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spelling pubmed-48298842016-04-22 An unexpected new species of the genus Pseudopoda (Araneae, Sparassidae, Heteropodinae) from the Western Ghats in India Jäger, Peter Kulkarni, Siddharth Zookeys Research Article Abstract. A new species of the genus Pseudopoda is described from India: Pseudopoda ashcharya sp. n. Males are characterised by the absence of the conductor and females are unique within the genus in having the lateral lobes of their epigyne fused. The systematic relationship of the new species is discussed referring to its isolated occurrence in the Western Ghats. Pensoft Publishers 2016-04-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4829884/ /pubmed/27110189 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.577.7848 Text en Peter Jäger, Siddharth Kulkarni http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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An unexpected new species of the genus Pseudopoda (Araneae, Sparassidae, Heteropodinae) from the Western Ghats in India
title An unexpected new species of the genus Pseudopoda (Araneae, Sparassidae, Heteropodinae) from the Western Ghats in India
title_full An unexpected new species of the genus Pseudopoda (Araneae, Sparassidae, Heteropodinae) from the Western Ghats in India
title_fullStr An unexpected new species of the genus Pseudopoda (Araneae, Sparassidae, Heteropodinae) from the Western Ghats in India
title_full_unstemmed An unexpected new species of the genus Pseudopoda (Araneae, Sparassidae, Heteropodinae) from the Western Ghats in India
title_short An unexpected new species of the genus Pseudopoda (Araneae, Sparassidae, Heteropodinae) from the Western Ghats in India
title_sort unexpected new species of the genus pseudopoda (araneae, sparassidae, heteropodinae) from the western ghats in india
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4829884/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27110189
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.577.7848
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