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Issue: Vol. 3613 No. 6: 14 Feb. 2013
Type: Articles
Published: 2013-02-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3613.6.1
Page range: 501–547
Abstract views: 50
PDF downloaded: 1

New cave-dwelling spiders of the family Nesticidae (Arachnida, Araneae) from China

Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Araneae Taxonomy diagnosis distribution morphology Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau Araneoidea Orbiculariae

Abstract

Nine new species of the family Nesticidae, collected from caves in Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan and Yunnan Provinces of China, are diagnosed, described and illustrated: Nesticella apiculata n. sp., Nesticella arcuata n. sp., Nesticella falcata n. sp., Nesticella gracilenta n. sp., Nesticella semicircularis n. sp., Nesticella shanlinensis n. sp., Nesticella verticalis n. sp., Nesticus globosus n. sp. and Nesticus navicellatus n. sp. Nesticella mogera (Yaginuma, 1972), from Guizhou, is described and compared to the new species.

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