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Issue: Vol. 4173 No. 2: 4 Oct. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-10-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4173.2.6
Page range: 155–162
Abstract views: 41
PDF downloaded: 1

Redescription of two Ctenidae (Araneae) from Taiwan

Institute for Biological Problems of the North RAS, Portovaya Str. 18, Magadan, Russia. Zoological Museum, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa
Gornotayozhnaya Station FEB RAS, Gornotayozhnoye Vil., Ussuriyski Dist., Primorski Krai, 692533 Russia. Far Eastern Federal University, Sukhanova 8, Vladivostok 690950, Russia
Araneae Aranei Anahita Ctenus Asia Kenting

Abstract

Two ctenid species, Anahita maolan Zhu, Chen & Song, 1999 and Ctenus yaeyamensis Yoshida, 1998 from Taiwan are redescribed in detail based on both sexes. Anahita maolan is reported from Taiwan for the first time. For both species, Kenting National Park (southernmost Taiwan) is the southernmost known locality.

 

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