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Issue: Vol. 4508 No. 1: 30 Oct. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-10-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4508.1.9
Page range: 141–150
Abstract views: 54
PDF downloaded: 2

Description of two new species of Paratus Simon, 1898 from southern China (Araneae: Liocranidae)

The Key Laboratory of Invertebrate Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China
The Key Laboratory of Invertebrate Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China The Museum of Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China
Araneae Spider taxonomy diagnosis morphology

Abstract

In this paper, two new Paratus species are described from southern China from both sexes: Paratus hamatus sp. n. from Yunnan Province and P. kentingensis sp. n. from Taiwan Province.

 

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