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Issue: Vol. 4136 No. 2: 6 Jul. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-07-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4136.2.1
Page range: 201–246
Abstract views: 258
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Fifteen new species of the spider genus Pholcus (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Southeast Asia

College of Life Science, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110034, China Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China
College of Life Science, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110034, China
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Araneae taxonomy morphology biodiversity pholcid Pholcinae

Abstract

Fifteen new species from six species groups of the genus Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 are described from Southeast Asia: Pholcus hinsonensis sp. nov. (male & female, Thailand) and P. tharnlodensis sp. nov. (male & female, Thailand) from the P. bidentatus species group; P. kottawagamaensis sp. nov. (male & female, Sri Lanka) from the P. ethagala species group; P. cenranaensis sp. nov. (male & female, Indonesia) and P. krachensis sp. nov. (male, Thailand) from the P. gracillimus species group; P. anaiensis sp. nov. (male, Indonesia), P. ballarini sp. nov. (male & female, Thailand), P. gou sp. nov. (male & female, Myanmar), P. wan sp. nov. (male & female, Thailand) and P. zhuchuandiani sp. nov. (male & female, Indonesia) from the P. halabala species group; P. chiangmaiensis sp. nov. (male & female, Thailand) and P. taptaoensis sp. nov. (male & female, Thailand) from the P. quinquenotatus species group; P. kaebyaiensis sp. nov. (male & female, Thailand), P. musensis sp. nov. (male & female, Thailand) and P. songkhonensis sp. nov. (male & female, Thailand) from the P. yichengicus species group.

 

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