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Issue: Vol. 1151 No. 1: 14 Mar. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-03-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1151.1.3
Page range: 41–46
Abstract views: 37
PDF downloaded: 2

A new species of the genus Sanmenia Song & Kim, 1992 (Araneae, Thomisidae) from Yunnan Province, China

College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, China Department of Life Sciences and Chemistry, Dali College, Dali, Yunnan 671000, China
College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, China
College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, China
Araneae crab spider diagnosis distribution taxonomy

Abstract

A new species, Sanmenia gongshan sp. nov., is described based on five males and eight females collected from Gongshan County of the Gaoligong Mountains National Nature Reserve and three males from Yingjiang County of Yunnan Province, China. A revised diagnosis and distribution for the genus Sanmenia are given.

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