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Issue: Vol. 5124 No. 5: 6 Apr. 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-04-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5124.5.5
Page range: 565-576
Abstract views: 266
PDF downloaded: 16

First records of the genus Phrurotimpus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 from China, with two new species and one new combination (Araneae: Phrurolithidae)

The Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application, Institute of Life Science and Green Development, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P.R. China
The Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application, Institute of Life Science and Green Development, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P.R. China
The Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application, Institute of Life Science and Green Development, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P.R. China
Araneae habitus taxonomy mating behavior diversity Yunnan Province

Abstract

The genus Phrurotimpus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935, previously known only from the Nearctic, is found in Asia for the first time, with species recorded from the Yunnan Province of China. Two new species are described from both sexes, P. daliensis sp. n. and P. baoshanensis sp. n., and one new combination, P. lasiolepis (Fu, Chen & Zhang, 2016) comb. n., are reported in this study.

 

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