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Issue: Vol. 2788 No. 1: 11 Mar. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-03-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2788.1.4
Page range: 57–68
Abstract views: 46
PDF downloaded: 1

A new genus of hahniid spiders from Far East Asia (Araneae: Hahniidae)

Institute for Biological Problems of the North, RAS, Portovaya Str. 18, Magadan 685000, Russia Zoological Museum, University of Turku, FI-20014, Turku, Finland
Araneae East Palaearctic Nearctic Neoantistea new species Kuril Islands Moneron Maritime Province Japan

Abstract

Pacifantistea ovtchinnikovi gen. n. & sp. n. belonging to Hahniinae is described on the basis of males and females from Moneron Island, Kuril Islands, the southern part of Maritime Province, the southern part of Kamchatka and Hokkaido. P. ovtchinnikovi sp. n. is the largest species among Hahniinae. The new species is compared in detail with other large–sized Hahniinae: Neoantistea magna (Nearctic) and N. quelpartensis (SE Palaearctic). The poorly documented affinities of these additional two species are discussed and illustrated.

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