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Issue: Vol. 5270 No. 2: 20 Apr. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-04-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5270.2.8
Page range: 325-336
Abstract views: 175
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Three new species of the genus Vappolotes Zhao & Li, 2019 (Araneae, Agelenidae) from southwest China

College of Life Science; Langfang Normal University; Langfang 065000; China
Institute of Zoology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing 100101; China
Institute of Zoology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing 100101; China
Araneae Asia cave spiders Coelotinae morphology taxonomy

Abstract

Three new species of Vappolotes Zhao & Li, 2019 (Araneae: Agelenidae) are described from Hunan and Sichuan provinces, China: V. longshan sp. n. (♀♂), V. tianjiayu sp. n. (♀), and V. hei sp. n. (♀♂). The diagnostic characters of this genus are amended based on the newly obtained data. Photographs of habitus and copulatory organs, as well as their distributions, are provided for all new Vappolotes species.

 

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