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Issue: Vol. 4821 No. 1: 30 Jul. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-07-30
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4821.1.9
Page range: 161–172
Abstract views: 95
PDF downloaded: 2

Fluctus gen. nov., a new castianeirine genus from Yunnan, China (Araneae: Corinnidae)

College of Landscape and Ecological Engineering, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan, Hebei 056038, P. R. China. The Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China
College of Landscape and Ecological Engineering, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan, Hebei 056038, P. R. China. The Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China
taxonomy corinnids morphology new species Asia Araneae

Abstract

A new genus of the subfamily Castianeirinae Reiskind, 1969, Fluctus gen. nov. from Yunnan, China is described, as well as two new species, F. bannaensis sp. nov. (♂♀) and F. tengchongensis sp. nov. (♂♀).

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