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Issue: Vol. 4350 No. 3: 20 Nov. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-11-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4350.3.3
Page range: 469–499
Abstract views: 95
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Eleven new species of the spider genus Althepus Thorell, 1898 (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae) from Thailand

College of Life Sciences, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110034, China Southeast Asia Biological Diversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw 05282, Myanmar
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Faculty of Forestry, Kasetsart University, Ladyao, Jatujak, Bangkok 10903, Thailand
College of Life Sciences, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110034, China
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Araneae Taxonomy morphology cave haplogynae Southeast Asia

Abstract

Eleven new Althepus species of the spider family Ochyroceratidae are reported from Thailand: A. duan sp. nov., A. duoji sp. nov. (male only), A. huoyan sp. nov., A. jiandan sp. nov., A. kuan sp. nov., A. lakmueangensis sp. nov., A. languensis sp. nov., A. muangensis sp. nov., A. qiqiu sp. nov. (female only), A. tuqi sp. nov., A. xianxi sp. nov. All types are deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China (IZCAS).

 

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