Spiders from Laos with descriptions of new species (Arachnida: Araneae) Author Jäger, Peter text Acta Arachnologica 2007 56 1 29 58 journal article 31880 10.2476/asjaa.56.29 de014b0b-a500-4236-9610-b6fe83e74184 818339 Heteropoda maxima Jäger 2001 Material examined. 1 female ( SMF 56573 ), L31, cave, 28.11.2003 , PJ 2509 . 1 female with egg sac ( SMF , in exhibition ), L31, cave, 28.11.2003 . 1 female ( SMF 56638 ), L31, cave, by hand, 30.X.2004 , PJ 2507, SD 111 . 1 juvenile ( SMF 56632 ), L32, cave, by hand, 28.11.2003 , PJ 1844 . 1 juvenile ( SMF 56633 ), L32, cave, by hand, 28.11.2003 , PJ 1845 . 1 male ( PJ 2510), 1 female (PJ 2511, SD 110) ( SMF 56634 ), L32, cave, by hand, 29.X.2004 . 1 male (PJ 2512), 1 female (PJ 2513) ( SMF 56533 ), L34, cave, by hand, 29.X.2004 , PJ 2508, SD 118 . 1 female ( SMF 56637 ), L34, cave, by hand, 30.X.2004 , PJ 2508, SD 118 . 1 female with egg sac ( SMF 56572 ), L35, cave, by hand, 27.11.2003 , PJ 1838 . 1 female with egg sac (PJ 2514), 4 juveniles ( SMF 56574 ), L35, cave, by hand, Jäger leg. 27.11.2003 . Expeditons in 2003 and 2004 showed that the species is abundant in a number of caves. Spiders were observed in the entrance area with the impact of sunlight and in dark places deep in the caves. As potential prey cave crickets and cave centipedes ( Scutigeromorpha : genus Thereuopoda ) were observed. Thereuopoda specimens were directly observed as prey of Heteropoda maxima and vice versa, H. maxima as prey of Thereuopoda sp. Additional material of large-sized cave dwelling specimens belonging to the same species-group as H. maxima from eastern Khammouan Province (Ban Thathot and caves west of this village) and from Vang Vieng needs thorough revision before statements about species identidy can be made.