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Issue: Vol. 4742 No. 2: 20 Feb. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-02-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4742.2.6
Page range: 332–342
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Three new species of the spider genus Belisana Thorell, 1898 (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China

College of Life Science, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang 110034, Liaoning, China
College of Life Science, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang 110034, Liaoning, China
College of Life Science, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang 110034, Liaoning, China
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Araneae Morphology Pholcinae Southeast Asia taxonomy

Abstract

Three new species of the spider genus Belisana Thorell, 1898 are described based on material collected in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China: Belisana mengla Yao & Li sp. nov.  (male, female), Belisana menglun Yao & Li sp. nov. (male), and Belisana mengyang Yao & Li sp. nov. (male, female), bringing the total Belisana fauna of Xishuangbanna to 12 species.

 

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