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
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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.