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Issue: Vol. 1172 No. 1: 13 Apr. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-04-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1172.1.4
Page range: 43–48
Abstract views: 51
PDF downloaded: 2

Discovery of the spider family Desidae (Araneae) in South China, with description of a new species of the genus Badumna Thorell, 1890

College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China
College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China Baoding Teachers College, Baoding, Hebei 071051, P. R. China
College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China The Department of Biochemistry, Dali College, Dali, Yunnan 671000, P. R. China
Araneae cribellate spider Indo-Australian region Mt. Gaoligong taxonomy

Abstract

A new species of the genus Badumna Thorell, 1890, from Yunnan Province, China is described under the name of B. tangae sp. nov. This is the first Desidae spider discovered and described from China. The new species is similar to B. insignis (L. Koch, 1872) occurring in Japan, Australia and New Zealand. But it differs from the latter by ALE largest; female with epigynal transverse ridge wide and triangular, copulatory ducts with three coils; male palpal tibia with a small, apicomedially placed, retrolateral ventral apophysis.

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