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Issue: Vol. 2452 No. 1: 12 May. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-05-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2452.1.6
Page range: 59–66
Abstract views: 37
PDF downloaded: 1

The spider genus Cnodalia (Araneae: Araneidae) in 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
College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410081, P. R. China
Araneae taxonomy orb-weaving spiders new species Cnodalia China

Abstract

Two new species, both from China, of the previously monotypic araneid genus Cnodalia Thorell, 1890 are described and illustrated: Cnodalia quadrituberculata n. sp. and Cnodalia flavescens n. sp.

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