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Issue: Vol. 5447 No. 4: 8 May 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-05-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5447.4.4
Page range: 513-530
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Description of four new species of Otacilia Thorell, 1897 (Araneae: Phrurolithidae) from southern China

Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application; College of Life Sciences; Hebei University; Baoding; Hebei 071002; P. R. China; Hebei Basic Science Center for Biotic Interaction; Hebei University; Baoding; Hebei 071002; P. R. China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application; College of Life Sciences; Hebei University; Baoding; Hebei 071002; P. R. China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application; College of Life Sciences; Hebei University; Baoding; Hebei 071002; P. R. China
Araneae Spiders morphology taxonomy

Abstract

Four new phrurolithid species of the genus Otacilia Thorell, 1897 are described from China: O. pingwu sp. nov. (♂♀; Sichuan Province), O. pugna sp. nov. (♂♀; Hunan Province), O. suining sp. nov. (♂♀; Hunan Province), and O. distorta sp. nov. (♂; Chongqing Municipality). Detailed morphological descriptions, photographs of body, copulatory organs and a distribution map of these four new species are provided.

 

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