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Issue: Vol. 5395 No. 1: 28 Dec. 2023
Type: Monograph
Published: 2023-12-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5395.1.1
Page range: 1-77
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Cave-dwelling Neobisiidae in South China Karst, with descriptions of twelve new species of Bisetocreagris (Pseudoscorpiones, Neobisiidae) from Guizhou Province

Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution; Institute of Zoology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing 100101; P. R. China; College of Life Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing; 100049; P. R. China; Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application; Hebei Basic Science Center for Biotic Interaction; College of Life sciences; Hebei University; Baoding; Hebei 071002; P. R. China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application; Hebei Basic Science Center for Biotic Interaction; College of Life sciences; Hebei University; Baoding; Hebei 071002; P. R. China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution; Institute of Zoology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing 100101; P. R. China; College of Life Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing; 100049; P. R. China
Pseudoscorpiones morphology cavernicoles taxonomy troglobionts

Abstract

Twelve new troglomorphic pseudoscorpion species of the genus Bisetocreagris Ćurčić, 1983 (Family Neobisiidae) are described based on specimens collected from karst caves in Guizhou Province, China: Bisetocreagris ampla sp. nov. from Hei Cave (Zunyi City), B. aspera sp. nov. from Tu Cave (Tongren City), B. brevis sp. nov. from Yehu Cave (Tongren City), B. changbing sp. nov. from Sanyuan Cave and Guanyin Cave (Zunyi City), B. chumi sp. nov. from Tufei Cave (Zunyi City), B. grandis sp. nov. from Wulibeidadong Cave (Bijie City), B. jiangi sp. nov. from Anjialin Cave (Tongren City), B. longidigitata sp. nov. from Mao’er Cave (Guiding County), B. que sp. nov. from Yanggong Cave (Sandu County), B. sanmen sp. nov. from Sanmen Cave (Zunyi City), B. xishui sp. nov. from Dongkoushan Cave (Zunyi City), B. tenuipalma sp. nov. from Sanjie Cave (Zunyi City). Detailed diagnoses, descriptions, and illustrations are provided for all species.

 

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