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Issue: Vol. 2223 No. 1: 8 Sep. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-09-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2223.1.3
Page range: 48–68
Abstract views: 51
PDF downloaded: 1

The crab spiders of the Genus Tmarus from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China (Araneae: Thomisidae)

Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, P. R. China College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, P. R. China
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, P. R. China
Araneae Taxonomy new species Southeast Asia tropical rainforest

Abstract

Four new and three known crab spider species of the genus Tmarus are reported from the Xishuangbanna Rainforest of Yunnan, China: T. byssinus sp. nov., T. hastatus sp. nov. male only), T. spicatus sp. nov. (female only), T. undatus sp. nov. (female only), T. menglae Song and Zhao, 1994, T. songi Han and Zhu, 2008 and T. taiwanus Ono, 1977. The male of T. menglae is described for the first time. The type specimens are deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.

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