A new cave-dwelling huntsman spider species from Palawan, Philippines is described: Heteropoda simoneallmannae sp. nov. (female) from the Puerto Princesa Underground River Cave system. It represents, besides H. steineriBayer & Jäger, 2009 from Laos, the second species within the genus with true cave adaptations like reduction of eye size and pigments.
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1 July 2018
The Second True Troglobiont Heteropoda Species from a Limestone Cave System in Palawan, Philippines (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae)
Peter Jäger
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Arachnology
Vol. 17 • No. 8
July 2018
Vol. 17 • No. 8
July 2018
cave adaptations
copulatory organs
huntsman spiders
systematics
taxonomy