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Issue: Vol. 5257 No. 1: 24 Mar. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-03-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5257.1.3
Page range: 5-16
Abstract views: 233
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Four new species of the spider genus Pseudopoda Jäger, 2000 (Sparassidae) from Yintiaoling Natural Reserve of Chongqing, China

Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.
Hubei Key Laboratory of Radiation Chemistry and Functional Materials, School of Nuclear Technology and Chemistry & Biology, Hubei University of Science and Technology, Xianning 437100, Hubei, China
Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.
Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
Araneae biodiversity description

Abstract

Four new species of the huntsmen spider genus Pseudopoda are described: P. hongqi sp. n. (male), P. shuyue sp. n. (male, female), P. wuxi sp. n. (male, female) and P. yintiaoling sp. n. (male, female). Morphological descriptions, photos of body and copulatory organs, as well as a locality map are provided.

 

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