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Issue: Vol. 4585 No. 3: 15 Apr. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-04-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4585.3.3
Page range: 459–477
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First records of the corinnid genera Allomedmassa Dankittipakul & Singtripop, 2014 and Medmassa Simon, 1887 from China, with the description of a new genus (Araneae: Corinnidae)

The Key Laboratory of Invertebrate Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China College of Landscape and Ecological Engineering, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan, Hebei 056038, P. R. China
The Key Laboratory of Invertebrate Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China
The Key Laboratory of Invertebrate Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China
Araneae spider taxonomy corinnids morphology new genus

Abstract

Two corinnid genera, Allomedmassa Dankittipakul & Singtripop, 2014 and Medmassa Simon, 1887, are recorded from China for the first time, including five species, four of which are new to science: Allomedmassa mae Dankittipakul & Singtripop, 2014, A. bifurca sp. nov., A. crassa sp. nov., A. matertera sp. nov. and Medmassa torta sp. nov.. A new genus, Paramedmassa gen. nov., is erected with the type species P. day (Dankittipakul & Singtripop, 2014) comb. nov., which is transferred from Allomedmassa.

 

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