Species list, Checklist of Family Sparassidae (Giant crab spiders) for Hong Kong (South-central China, China)

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INSECTOIDGERENGDARK LIGHT

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Checklist for Family Sparassidae Bertkau, 1872 (Giant crab spiders)
and region Hong Kong (South-central China, China)

Class	Arachnida Lamarck, 1801 Arachnids	58 162 251	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Micrura Ehrenberg, 1831	54 157 247	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Megoperculata Börner, 1902	30 124 212	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Araneae Clerck, 1757 Spider, Spiders, True Spiders	29 122 210	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Araneomorphae Smith, 1902 True Spiders	25 116 203	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraorder	Araneomorphi Smith, 1902	25 116 203	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Sparassoidea Bertkau, 1872	1 2 6	Family Genera Species	Taxom
Family	Sparassidae Bertkau, 1872 Giant crab spiders, Huntsman spiders, Huntsmans	2 6	Genera Species	Taxom

Genera for Hong Kong
2 Genera with 6 Species

Heteropoda Latreille, 1767		5	Species	Taxom
Thelcticopis Karsch, 1875		1	Species	Taxom

Species list for Hong Kong
6 Species

Heteropoda amphora Fox, 1936
Heteropoda onoi Peter Jäger, 2008
Heteropoda pingtungensis Zhu & Tso, 2006
Heteropoda squamacea Wang, 1990
Heteropoda venatoria (Linnaeus, 1767)	⇒ Heteropoda simplex Jäger & Ono, 2000
Thelcticopis severa L. Koch, 1875

Subnodes of Sparassidae with occurrences in Hong Kong

Subfamily	Heteropodinae Thorell, 1873	1 5	Genus Species	Taxom
Subfamily	Sparianthinae Simon, 1897	1 1	Genus Species	Taxom

Links, sources and further information

Sparassidae at artfakta.se
Sparassidae at biodiversity.org.au
Sparassidae at dyntaxa.se
Sparassidae at gbif.org
Sparassidae at irmng.org
Sparassidae at itis.gov