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Issue: Vol. 4442 No. 1: 29 Jun. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-06-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4442.1.10
Page range: 171–180
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Two new species of the trapdoor spider genus Conothele Thorell, 1878 (Mygalomorphae: Halonoproctidae) from China

Yunnan Provincial Key Laboratory of Entomological Biopharmaceutical R&D, National-Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Entomoceutics, Dali University, Dali, Yunnan, China
College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, China
Araneae male pitfall trap taxonomy Yunnan

Abstract

Here male specimens of the trapdoor spider family Halonoproctidae collected from Yunnan Province, China are diagnosed and described as new to science based on their genital morphology. Specimens are identified as two new species of Conothele Thorell, 1878: C. cangshan sp. nov. and C. deqin sp. nov.

 

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