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Issue: Vol. 3200 No. 1: 21 Feb. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-02-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3200.1.4
Page range: 61–68
Abstract views: 32
PDF downloaded: 1

Two new Rhitymna species (Araneae: Sparassidae) from Hainan Island, China

College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, Hubei, China
College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, Hubei, China
Araneae New species endemism taxonomy diagnosis hunting spiders

Abstract

Two new species of the genus Rhitymna are described from Hainan Island (southern China): Rhitymna tangi sp. nov., Rhi-tymna macilenta sp. nov. Morphological descriptions and illustrations of the two new species are given. The type speci-mens of those new species are deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing (IZCAS) and in college of Life Sciences, Hubei University in Wuhan (HBU).

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