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Issue: Vol. 5134 No. 2: 10 May 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-05-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5134.2.4
Page range: 238-260
Abstract views: 233
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Description of eight new species of Otacilia Thorell, 1897 from southern China (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
School of Landscape and Ecological Engineering, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan, Heibei 056038, 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 Spider Dionycha Taxonomy Morphology

Abstract

Eight new species of Otacilia Thorell, 1897 from China are described and illustrated, all with both sexes: O. furcata sp. nov., O. guoi sp. nov., O. jiajinshan sp. nov. and O. menghuo sp. nov. from Sichuan Province, O. triangula sp. nov. from Chongqing City; O. shunhuangshan sp. nov. from Hunan Province; and O. subkomurai sp. nov. from Hubei Province, O. xueshanensis sp. nov. from Guizhou Provice.

 

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