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Issue: Vol. 1480 No. 1: 24 May. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-05-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1480.1.2
Page range: 57–68
Abstract views: 78
PDF downloaded: 1

Five crab spiders of the Genus Lysiteles from Yunnan Province, China (Araneae: Thomisidae)

College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410081, P. R. China California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California 94103, U.S.A.
College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410081, P. R. China California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California 94103, U.S.A.
College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410081, P. R. China California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California 94103, U.S.A.
College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410081, P. R. China California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California 94103, U.S.A.
College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410081, P. R. China California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California 94103, U.S.A.
Araneae Taxonomy new species new records Gaoligong Mountains

Abstract

This paper describes five species of spiders of the genus Lysiteles (Araneae: Thomisidae) from the Gaoligong Mountains, Yunnan Province, China. Included are three species new to science, L. davidi sp. nov., L. conicus sp. nov. and L. dentatus sp. nov., and two new records for China, L. ambrosii Ono, 2001 and L. bhutanus Ono, 2001, both originally described from Bhutan. Detailed morphological characters, photos and illustrations of body and copulatory organs of these five species are presented.

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