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Issue: Vol. 4323 No. 4: 25 Sept. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-09-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4323.4.1
Page range: 451–468
Abstract views: 113
PDF downloaded: 2

Redescription of Bomis larvata L. Koch, 1874 with the description of a new Australian species

Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology, Institute of Environmental Biology, A. Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Collegium Biologicum, Umultowska 89, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
Topolowa 40, 62-571 Stare Miasto, Poland
Araneae Bomis hippoponoi n. sp. Bominae crab spiders taxonomy type species

Abstract

All known species of Bomis are very small—spiders in this genus belong to the smallest crab spiders known. The type species, Bomis larvata L. Koch, 1874, is distributed in Australia. Three more species of the genus have been described from India. This paper is a redescription of B. larvata accompanied by a description of Bomis hippoponoi n. sp. from Australia.

 

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