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Issue: Vol. 4459 No. 2: 15 Aug. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-08-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4459.2.4
Page range: 285–300
Abstract views: 104
PDF downloaded: 3

Two new species of the spider Family Zodariidae from Laos

Department of Biochemistry, Baoding University, Baoding, Hebei 071051, P. R. China. College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050024, P. R. China
The Key Laboratory of Invertebrate Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China
Araneae taxonomy ant-eating spiders Asceua Mallinella Champasak Province

Abstract

Two new Zodariidae species, collected from the natural forest of Pakse City, Champasak Province, Laos, are described as Asceua adunca sp. nov. (male, female) and Mallinella renaria sp. nov. (male, female). Asceua torquata (Simon, 1909) and A. piperata Ono, 2004 are newly recorded from Laos, and the male of A. piperata is described and illustrated for the first time.

 

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