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Issue: Vol. 4461 No. 4: 23 Aug. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-08-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4461.4.8
Page range: 587–599
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Two new species of Biantes from China and Malaysia (Opiliones: Laniatores: Biantidae)

The Key Laboratory of Invertebrate Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, China
Institut für Organismische und Molekulare Evolutionsbiologie, D-55099 Mainz, Germany. Senckenberg Research Institute, Arachnology. Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
The Key Laboratory of Invertebrate Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, China
Opiliones Arachnida taxonomy genitalia Biantinae

Abstract

Two new species of Biantes Simon, 1885 (Biantidae: Biantinae) are described: Biantes calyptroideus sp. nov. (male and female) from China and Biantes spatulatus sp. nov. (male and female) from Malaysia. Biantidae is recorded from China for the first time.

 

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