Abstract
In this paper, two new species of the genus Amaurobius C. L. Koch, 1837 of the family Amaurobiidae Thorell, 1869 are reported from Sichuan Province, China: A. danba Lin & Li, sp. nov. (♂♀) and A. yaan Lin & Li, sp. nov. (♂♀). Photos and morphological descriptions of the new species are presented; the type specimens of the new species are deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IZCAS), Beijing.
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