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Issue: Vol. 2823 No. 1: 18 Apr. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-04-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2823.1.1
Page range: 1–31
Abstract views: 59
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New Trilacuna species from Thailand, Malaysia and Sumatra (Araneae, Oonopidae)

Natural History Museum, Bernastrasse 15, CH-3005 Bern, Switzerland
Natural History Museum, Bernastrasse 15, CH-3005 Bern, Switzerland
Araneae goblin spiders PBI taxonomy Asia diversity

Abstract

The genus Trilacuna (Araneae, Oonopidae), comprising only two species from China, is supplemented by seven new species collected in Thailand, Malaysia and Sumatra (T. merapi, T. bilingua, T. clarissa, T. werni, T. alces, T. kropfi, and T. diabolica). The new species exhibit an incised labium and a complicated set of membranes and/or filiform projections around the embolus, both diagnostic for the genus Trilacuna.

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