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Issue: Vol. 1786 No. 1: 9 Jun. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-06-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1786.1.2
Page range: 19–34
Abstract views: 37
PDF downloaded: 1

Ten new species of the genus Draconarius (Araneae: Amaurobiidae) from China

College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, P. R. China
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, P. R. China
Araneae Taxonomy biodiversity spiders Sichuan Yunnan Hunan

Abstract

Ten new Draconarius species are described: D. acutus spec. nov., D. complanatus spec. nov., D. expansus spec. nov., D. magnarcuatus spec. nov., D. pseudocoreanus spec. nov., D. subabsentis spec. nov., D. sublutulentus spec. nov., D. tensus spec. nov., D. ventrifurcatus spec. nov. and D. zonalis spec. nov. Detailed descriptions and illustrations of these new species are provided.

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