A new species of the genus Songthela from Guizhou Province, China (Araneae: Mesothelae: Liphistiidae)

ISSN: 1300-0179
Yayın Aralığı: Yılda 6 Sayı
Yayıncı: TÜBİTAK

A new species belonging to the genus Songthela Ono, 2000 is described from both the male and the female: S. pluma sp. nov. This species is currently known to occur only in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, China. Detailed morphological characters, a distribution map, and illustrations of the habitus and copulatory organs are given.

Keywords:

Primitively segmented spiders, taxonomy, new species,

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