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Issue: Vol. 2092 No. 1: 6 May. 2009
Type: Article
Published: 2009-05-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2092.1.5
Page range: 58–68
Abstract views: 46
PDF downloaded: 1

Four new troglophilous species of the genus Belisana Thorell, 1898 (Araneae, Pholcidae) from Guizhou Province, China

College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding Hebei 071002, China
College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding Hebei 071002, China
College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding Hebei 071002, China
Araneae Pholcidae new species Belisana cave Guizhou China

Abstract

Four new troglophilous, six-eyed pholcid spiders belonging to the genus Belisana from caves in Shuicheng County, Zhijing County, Xishui County and Yanhe Tujia Autonomic County, Guizhou, China, are diagnosed, described and illustrated: Belisana douqing sp. nov., B. daji sp. nov., B. xishui sp. nov., and B. yanhe sp. nov..

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