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Issue: Vol. 1857 No. 1: 27 Aug. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-08-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1857.1.1
Page range: 1–20
Abstract views: 50
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New cave-dwelling huntsman spider species of the genus Sinopoda (Araneae: Sparassidae) from southern China

Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, P. R. China
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, P. R. China
Research Institute Senckenberg, Senckenberganlage 25, D-60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Araneae Taxonomy new species Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau Hainan Island

Abstract

Nine new species of the genus Sinopoda, collected from Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and Hainan Island of southern China, are described: Sinopoda anguina sp. nov., Sinopoda crassa sp. nov., Sinopoda fornicata sp. nov., Sinopoda grandispinosa sp. nov., Sinopoda nuda sp. nov., Sinopoda semicirculata sp. nov., Sinopoda triangula sp. nov., Sinopoda undata sp. nov. and Sinopoda yaojingensis sp. nov. The type specimen of Sinopoda longshan Yin, Peng, Yan & Bao 2000 is redescribed and illustrated. All nine new species were collected from caves. The type specimens of new species are deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing (IZCAS) and Research Institute Senckenberg in Frankfurt am Main (SMF).

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