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Issue: Vol. 4226 No. 2: 26 Jan. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-01-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4226.2.7
Page range: 273–282
Abstract views: 86
PDF downloaded: 1

Three new spider species of Irura Peckham & Peckham, 1901 from China (Araneae: Salticidae)

College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081, China College of Biological and A&F Engineering, Tongren University, Tongren, Guizhou Province, 554300, P.R. China
College of Biological and A&F Engineering, Tongren University, Tongren, Guizhou Province, 554300, P.R. China
College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081, China
Araneae jumping spider taxonomy East Asia

Abstract

Three new species of the genus Irura are described from China: I. montiformis sp. nov., I. zhangae sp. nov. and I. yinae sp. nov. Distributional data, detailed morphological characteristics, and illustrations of body and genital organs are presented.

 

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