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Issue: Vol. 1815 No. 1: 4 Jul. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-07-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1815.1.6
Page range: 62–68
Abstract views: 36
PDF downloaded: 1

Two new species of the crab spider genus Talaus (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Yunnan Province, China

College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410081, P. R. China
College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410081, P. R. China
California Academy of Sciences, 55 Concourse Drive, San Francisco, California 94118, U.S.A
College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410081, P. R. China
Araneae Taxonomy Thomisidae Talaus new species Gaoligong Mountains

Abstract

This paper describes 2 new species of the crab spider genus Talaus (Thomisidae: Thomisinae, Talaini) from the Gaoligong Mountains, Yunnan Province, China: T. dulongjiang sp. nov. and T. niger sp. nov. Detailed morphological characters, photos and illustrations of copulatory organs, and a distribution map for the species are presented.

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