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Issue: Vol. 4318 No. 2: 7 Sept. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-09-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.2.3
Page range: 271–294
Abstract views: 79
PDF downloaded: 1

One new Pseudopoda species group (Araneae: Sparassidae) from Yunnan Province, China, with description of three new species

Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-Resources, Center for Behavioural Ecology and Evolution, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, Hubei, China
Arachnology, Senckenberg Research Institute, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-Resources, Center for Behavioural Ecology and Evolution, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, Hubei, China
Araneae huntsman spiders biodiversity systematics taxonomy

Abstract

One new species group of the genus Pseudopoda Jäger, 2000 is described from Yunnan Province, China. The Pseudopoda daliensis-group includes two known species, Pseudopoda daliensis Jäger & Vedel, 2007 (♂♀), Pseudopoda kunmingensis Sun & Zhang, 2012 (♂♀), and three new species, Pseudopoda anguilliformis sp. nov. (♂♀), Pseudopoda sicyoidea sp. nov. (♂♀), Pseudopoda peronata sp. nov. (♀).

 

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