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Issue: Vol. 1778 No. 1: 28 May. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-05-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1778.1.4
Page range: 48–58
Abstract views: 42
PDF downloaded: 1

Four new cave-dwelling Platocoelotes species (Araneae: Amaurobiidae) from Guangxi and Guizhou, China

Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, P. R. China Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, P. R. China
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, P. R. China
Araneae Taxonomy new species copulatory organs morphology southern China

Abstract

Four new species of the genus Platocoelotes, collected from caves in Guangxi and Guizhou of southwestern China, are diagnosed, described and illustrated: Platocoelotes ampulliformis sp. nov., Platocoelotes brevis sp. nov., Platocoelotes furcatus sp. nov., and Platocoelotes strombuliformis sp. nov.. The type specimens are deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing (IZCAS).

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