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Issue: Vol. 2060 No. 1: 1 Apr. 2009
Type: Article
Published: 2009-04-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2060.1.2
Page range: 22–32
Abstract views: 31
PDF downloaded: 1

Three new species and one newly recorded species of oonopid spiders (Araneae: Oonopidae) from Hainan, China

Chemistry and Life Science College, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang, 110034, China Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110016, China
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
Araneae Taxonomy Gamasomorpha Xestaspis new species China

Abstract

Three new species and one newly recorded species of the genera Gamasomorpha and Xestaspis collected from Hainan Island, China, are diagnosed, described and illustrated: Gamasomorpha comosa sp. nov., Gamasomorpha virgulata sp. nov., Xestaspis loricata (L. Koch, 1873) and Xestaspis rostrata sp. nov. The genus Xestaspis is firstly recorded from China. The type specimens are deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IZCAS).

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