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Issue: Vol. 3608 No. 6: 23 Jan. 2013
Type: Articles
Published: 2013-01-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3608.6.4
Page range: 511–520
Abstract views: 54
PDF downloaded: 1

Anapidae (Arachnida: Araneae), a spider family newly recorded from Laos

Key Laboratory of Bio-resources and Eco-environment (Ministry of Education), College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610064, China
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Arachnology, Senckenberg Research Institute, Senckenberganlage 25, D-60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Araneae taxonomy Pseudanapis Sinanapis new species new record Araneoidea Orbiculariae

Abstract

The spider family Anapidae is reported from Laos for the first time. One new species is described: Pseudanapis namkhan n. sp. from Nam Khan Valley, Luang Prabang Province. Another species is recorded for the first time from Champasak Province, Laos and the following new synonymy is proposed: Sinanapis thaleri Ono 2009 = Sinanapis crassitarsus Wunderlich & Song 1995 n. syn. Morphological descriptions, diagnoses and comparative illustrations are provided for the two species.

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