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Issue: Vol. 1425 No. 1: 15 Mar. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-03-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1425.1.2
Page range: 11–20
Abstract views: 67
PDF downloaded: 1

Redescription of Australian crab spider Diaea pulleinei Rainbow, 1915 (Araneae: Thomisidae)

Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Faculty of Biology, Collegium Biologicum, Umultowska 89, 61–614 Poznañ, Poland
Araneae Diaea pulleinei taxonomy redescription description male female

Abstract

Species richness of described crab spiders (Family Thomisidae) in Australia is low. Altogether 123 species of the family are known from this continent. One of the most abundantly represented genera of crab spiders in Australia is Diaea (31 recognized species). This paper revises knowledge of one species of this genus, Diaea pulleinei Rainbow, 1915, supplementing its description with the hitherto unknown female.

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