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Issue: Vol. 4402 No. 2: 28 Mar. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-03-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4402.2.8
Page range: 363–372
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The first record of Amaurobius C.L. Koch, 1837 (Araneae, Amaurobiidae) from China, with description of two new species

Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.
Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.
Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.
Araneae taxonomy morphology description Amaurobiinae

Abstract

Two new species of Amaurobius from China, A. songi sp. nov. and A. spinatus sp. nov. are described on morphological characters of males and females. They are generally very similar to all known Amaurobius species from India, Europe and North America but differ in some details of the copulatory organs. The two species represent the first record of Amaurobius in China.

 

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