The second true troglobiont Heteropoda species from a limestone cave system in Palawan, Philippines (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae)

摘要

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. steineri Bayer & Jager, 2009 from Laos,the second species within the genus with true cave adaptations like reduction of eye size and pigments.