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Issue: Vol. 3475 No. 1: 10 Sep. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-09-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3475.1.5
Page range: 55–64
Abstract views: 54
PDF downloaded: 1

Two new species of the family Tetrablemmidae (Araneae) from Laos and Malaysia

Key Laboratory of Bio-resources and Eco-environment (Ministry of Education), College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610064, China
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Arachnology, Senckenberg Research Institute, Senckenberganlage 25, D-60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Araneae taxonomy armoured spider description Southeast Asia

Abstract

Two new species of the spider family Tetrablemmidae are described: Brignoliella besutensis sp. nov. from Malaysia and Tetrablemma namkhan sp. nov. from Laos. The family Tetrablemmidae is reported from Laos for the first time.

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