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Issue: Vol. 4915 No. 1: 20 Jan. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-01-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4915.1.4
Page range: 60–76
Abstract views: 118
PDF downloaded: 14

Two new species of Plistobunus from China (Opiliones: Laniatores: Epedanidae)

The Key Laboratory of Invertebrate Systematics and Application, School of Life Sciences, Institute of Life Sciences and Green Development, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, China.
Departamento de Invertebrados, Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20.940-040, Rio de Janeiro—RJ—BRAZIL.
The Key Laboratory of Invertebrate Systematics and Application, School of Life Sciences, Institute of Life Sciences and Green Development, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, China.
Opiliones harvestmen new species description taxonomy

Abstract

The present paper describes two new species of Plistobunus Pocock, 1903, from China: Plistobunus gracilipenis sp. nov. from Yunnan Province, and P. weiguang sp. nov. from Guangxi Province. Their discovery greatly expands the distribution of this genus to the northwest and further inland in China.

 

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