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Issue: Vol. 1366 No. 1: 27 Nov. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-11-27
Page range: 61–68
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Description of Sinothomisus gen. nov. with a new species from Yunnan Province, China (Araneae, Thomisidae)

College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410081, P. R. China
College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410081, P. R. China 2California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California 94118, USA
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California 94118, USA
College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410081, P. R. China
Araneae Taxonomy crab spider new genus Gaoligong Mountains

Abstract

This paper reports a new thomisid spider genus Sinothomisus with type species, Sinothomisus liae sp. nov., from Gaoligong Mountains, Yunnan Province, China. Photos of bodies, SEM photos of male palpal organ, illustrations of copulatory organs and the detailed morphological characteristics are given.

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