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Issue: Vol. 3974 No. 1: 19 Jun. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-06-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3974.1.4
Page range: 59–75
Abstract views: 61
PDF downloaded: 2

Three new Sinopoda species (Araneae: Sparassidae) from southern China

Department of Biochemistry, Baoding University, Baoding, Hebei 071051, P. R. China
Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region, School of Life Science, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, P. R. China
The Key Laboratory of Invertebrate Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China
taxonomy Heteropodinae huntsman spiders distributional records

Abstract

Three new species of the huntsman spider genus Sinopoda Jäger, 1999, collected from Sichuan Province and Chongqing Municipality, P. R. China, are described: Sinopoda cochlearia sp. nov. (male, female), S. globosa sp. nov. (male, female) and S. longiducta sp. nov. (male, female). All three new species were collected from native forest by hand.