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Issue: Vol. 4585 No. 3: 15 Apr. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-04-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4585.3.2
Page range: 438–458
Abstract views: 104
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Six new species of Otacilia from southern China (Araneae: Phrurolithidae)

College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, Hunan, China College of Life Science, Jinggangshan University, Ji’an 343009, Jiangxi, China
College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, Hunan, China The National & Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of Animal Peptide Drug Development (Hunan Normal University), National Development and Reform Commission, Changsha 410081, China
College of Life Science, Jinggangshan University, Ji’an 343009, Jiangxi, China
College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, Hunan, China
College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, Hunan, China
Araneae taxonomy sac spiders Hunan Guangxi China

Abstract

Six new ground sac spider species of the family Phrurolithidae were collected from southern China: Otacilia ailan sp. nov. (♀), O. daweishan sp. nov. (♂, ♀), O. fabiformis sp. nov. (♂, ♀) and O. jiandao sp. nov. (♀) from Hunan Province; and O. nonggang sp. nov. (♂, ♀) and O. yinae sp. nov. (♂) from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. All species are described and illustrated with photographs and line drawings.

 

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