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Issue: Vol. 5285 No. 1: 15 May 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-05-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5285.1.8
Page range: 176-186
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Three new species of liocranid spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from China and Nepal

College of Life Science; Shenyang Normal University; Shenyang 110034; Liaoning; China
Institute of Zoology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing 100101; China
Institute of Zoology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing 100101; China
College of Life Science; Shenyang Normal University; Shenyang 110034; Liaoning; China
Araneae Asia biodiversity invertebrate morphology taxonomy

Abstract

Three new species of spiders belonging to the genera Oedignatha Thorell, 1881 and Paratus Simon, 1898 of the family Liocranidae Simon, 1897 are described from China and Nepal: Oedignatha shaanxi sp. nov. (female only; Shaanxi, China), Paratus bagmati sp. nov. (male only; Bagmati, Nepal), and P. ledong sp. nov. (both sexes; Hainan, China). In addition, Liocranidae is reported from Nepal for the first time.

 

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