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Issue: Vol. 4657 No. 2: 19 Aug. 2019
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2019-08-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4657.2.12
Page range: 392–396
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First record of Artoria Thorell, 1877 (Araneae: Lycosidae) from Malaysia, with the description of a new species

College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, Hunan, China Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.
Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.
College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, Hunan, China
Araneae

Abstract

The wolf spider genus Artoria Thorell, 1877 is a common group in Australasia, currently including 41 species from Australia, three from New Zealand and four from Pacific islands (Framenau & Baehr 2018; Word Spider Catalog 2019). This does not, however, comprise the whole distribution of the genus. The type species, A. parvula Thorell, 1877 has been recorded from China, Philippines, Indonesia (Sulawesi) and Australia (Northern Territory). An endemic species, A. ligulacea (Qu, Peng & Yin, 2009) was described from Yunnan, China. This indicates that there must be some undescribed species from Southeast Asian countries. A recent collecting expedition to Malaysia confirms this hypothesis. Two species of Artoria were found, the type species, A. parvula from East and West Malaysia and a new species, A. weiwei sp. nov. from East Malaysia. In this study, we illustrate the former and describe for the first time the latter species.

 

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