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Issue: Vol. 2491 No. 1: 2 Jun. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-06-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2491.1.2
Page range: 34–40
Abstract views: 64
PDF downloaded: 1

Two new species of the rare orb weaving spider genus Deione (Araneae: Araneidae) from China

College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410081, P. R. China
College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410081, P. R. China
College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410081, P. R. China
Araneae taxonomy orb-weaver spider new species Deione China

Abstract

The orb-weaving spider genus Deione is diagnosed by having two pairs of vertically arranged humps posteriorly on the abdomen and by the enlarged tibia II of males. Two new species of this genus from Yunnan Province in China, Deione ovata n. sp. and Deione renaria n. sp. are described here.

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