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Issue: Vol. 3327 No. 1: 29 May. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-05-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3327.1.6
Page range: 62–68
Abstract views: 46
PDF downloaded: 1

Two new species of the spider genus Tropizodium Jocqué & Churchill, 2005 with notes on the femoral organ clade from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Zodariidae, Zodariinae)

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand
Invertebrate non–insects Section, Royal Museum for Central Africa, B-3080 Tervuren, Belgium
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand
Araneae Asia taxonomy new species Tropizodium new synonymy

Abstract

Four species of Tropizodium Jocqué & Churchill, 2005 are newly recognized from Southeast Asia of which two speciesare new: T. siam sp. nov. from northern Thailand and T. murphyorum sp. nov. from Bali, Indonesia. Tropizodium serrafer-um (Lin & Li, 2009) comb. nov. is here transferred from Zodariellum Andreeva & Tyschchenko, 1968. The monotypicgenus, Indozodion Ovtchinnikov, 2006, is considered a junior synonym of Tropizodium. Its single species consequently becomes Tropizodium inayatullahi (Ovtchinnikov, 2006) comb. nov.

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