New cave-dwelling armored spiders (Araneae,Tetrablemmidae) from Southwest China |
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| Authors: | Yucheng Lin Shuqiang Li |
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| Institution: | 1.Key Laboratory of Bio-resources and Eco-environment (Ministry of Education), College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610064, China ;2.Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China |
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| Abstract: | A new genus and five new species belonging to the family Tetrablemmidae are described from caves in Southwest China, i.e., Sinammaoxycera
gen. & sp. n., Singaporemma banxiaoensis
sp. n., Singaporemma wulongensis
sp. n., Tetrablemma ziyaoensis
sp. n. andTetrablemma menglaensis
sp. n. The following new combination is proposed: Sinamma sanya (Lin & Li, 2010), comb. n. ex. Shearella Lehtinen, 1981. The relationships of the Sinamma
gen. n. with other genera are discussed. Diagnoses and illustrations for all new taxa are given. |
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| Keywords: | Taxonomy haplogyne spiders new species diagnosis distribution |
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