<strong>Six <em>Sinopoda</em> species (Araneae: Sparassidae) from Fujian and Yunnan Provinces in China</strong>

YANG ZHONG; XIAOWEI CAO; JIE LIU

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4227.2.1

Issue: Vol. 4227 No. 2: 2 Feb. 2017

Type: Article

Published: 2017-02-02

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4227.2.1

Page range: 151–172

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**Six Sinopoda species (Araneae: Sparassidae) from Fujian and Yunnan Provinces in China**

YANG ZHONG⁺⁻
XIAOWEI CAO⁺⁻
JIE LIU⁺⁻

Hubei Collaborative Innovation Centre for Green Transformation of Bio-Resources, Centre for Behavioural Ecology and Evolution, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, Hubei, China

Araneae huntsman spiders biodiversity systematics taxonomy

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Abstract

Five new Sinopoda species collected from China are diagnosed, described and illustrated: S. afflata sp. nov. (♀, Yunnan), S. horizontalis sp. nov. (♀, Fujian), S. liui sp. nov. (♀, Fujian), S. mamillata sp. nov. (♂♀, Yunnan), S. separata sp. nov. (♀, Yunnan). The female of S. anguina Liu, Li & Jäger, 2008 is described for the first time from Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture and Baoshan City, Yunnan province, China.

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