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Issue: Vol. 4388 No. 3: 5 Mar. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-03-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4388.3.2
Page range: 328–346
Abstract views: 72
PDF downloaded: 1

Taxonomic review of the Sinopoda okinawana-group (Araneae: Sparassidae) in China

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
Arachnology, Senckenberg Research Institute, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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
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 new species taxonomy

Abstract

Five Sinopoda species in the okinawana-group including one new species from central and south-western China are treated in the current paper: S. cochlearia Zhang, Zhang & Zhang, 2015, S. fasciculata Jäger, Gao & Fei, 2002, S. guangyuanensis sp. nov., S. hamata (Fox, 1937) and S. wangi Song & Zhu, 1999. The female of S. fasciculata is described for the first time. New province records are provided as well as photos of copulatory organs and habitus.

 

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