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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-07-06
Page range: 444–450
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A new Zoropsis species from China, with notes on Zoropsis pekingensis Schenkel, 1953 (Araneae, Zoropsidae)

The Key Laboratory of Invertebrate Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China
The Key Laboratory of Invertebrate Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China
The Key Laboratory of Invertebrate Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China
Araneae Zoropsidae

Abstract

 

The family Zoropsidae is currently represented by 15 genera and 87 species (World Spider Catalog 2015). Zoropsids are medium to large size spiders, with a narrow, bipartite cribellum and calamistrum; eight eyes in two rows, anterior eye row nearly straight, posterior row strongly recurved; median furrow longitudinal; toothed chelicerae; tibiae and metatarsi I, II equipped with several pairs of ventral spines; metatarsi and tarsi bearing scopulae; two tarsal claws (Bosselaers 2002). They are often collected from houses, under stones or in leaf litter in forest.