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Issue: Vol. 4802 No. 1: 22 Jun. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-06-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4802.1.7
Page range: 111–128
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The Belisana spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Tibet, 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 taxonomy Pholcinae pholcid Himalaya

Abstract

Only three species of the genus Belisana Thorell, 1898, were recorded from Tibet, China, before the current study. In this study, four new Belisana species from Tibet are described: Belisana medog sp. nov. (male), Belisana muruo sp. nov. (male, female), Belisana xigaze sp. nov. (male, female), and Belisana zham sp. nov. (male, female). The female of Belisana gyirong Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2006 is reported for the first time.

 

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