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Issue: Vol. 5415 No. 3: 22 Feb. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-02-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5415.3.2
Page range: 392-400
Abstract views: 7
PDF downloaded: 1

Cornifronus gen. nov., a new dark sac spider genus from China (Araneae: Trachelidae)

School of Landscape and Ecological Engineering; Hebei University of Engineering; Handan; Hebei 056038; P. R. China
School of Landscape and Ecological Engineering; Hebei University of Engineering; Handan; Hebei 056038; P. R. China
The Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application; Institute of Life Science and Green Development; College of Life Sciences; Hebei University; Baoding; Hebei 071002; P. R. China
Araneae Asia morphology new species trachelids taxonomy

Abstract

A new genus of the spider family Trachelidae L. Koch, 1872, Cornifronus gen. nov. from China is described, as well as one new species, C. simplex sp. nov. (♂♀), known only from Hainan and Yunnan Province.

 

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