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Issue: Vol. 4809 No. 1: 6 Jul. 2020
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2020-07-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4809.1.14
Page range: 197–200
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Dolichognatha bannaensis new species, a six-eyes tetragnathid spider from China (Araneae, Tetragnathidae)

College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, Hunan, China Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, Hunan, China
Araneae Tetragnathidae

Abstract

Almost all of the tetragnathid spiders have eight eyes, while two Dolichognatha species, D. longiceps (Thorell, 1895) (Sunil Jose 2014: 474, figs 1A–B) and D. junlitjri (Barrion-Dupo & Barrion, 2014) (Barrion-Dupo & Barrion 2014: 196, figs 1A–B) have six eyes (PME absent). They were originally assigned to Prolochus Thorell, 1895, which was synonymized with Dolichognatha O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 by Levi (1981), and reaffirmed by Kallal & Hormiga (2018) after a multi-loci phylogenetic analysis.

 

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