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Issue: Vol. 3609 No. 3: 30 Jan. 2013
Type: Articles
Published: 2013-01-30
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3609.3.4
Page range: 302–310
Abstract views: 58
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Notes on four pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) described by T. Thorell from Southeast Asia

Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale ‘Giacomo Doria’, Genova 16121, Italy
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Araneae Taxonomy morphology diagnosis Indonesia Myanmar Burma

Abstract

The Southeast Asian pholcids Belisana tauricornis Thorell, 1898, Pholcus gracillimus Thorell, 1890, P. quinquenotatus Thorell, 1878 and Spermophora thorelli Roewer, 1942 are redescribed on the basis of the type material.

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