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Issue: Vol. 4963 No. 1: 16 Apr. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-04-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4963.1.5
Page range: 115–137
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Six new species of the spider genus Belisana (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Southeast Asia

Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw 05282, Myanmar
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
morphology taxonomy Indo-Malayan Region Pholcinae

Abstract

Six new species belonging to Belisana Thorell, 1898 are described from Southeast Asia: Belisana bachma sp. nov. (Vietnam; male, female), B. cucphuong sp. nov. (Vietnam; male, female), B. jaegeri sp. nov. (Malaysia; male, female), B. kachin sp. nov. (Myanmar; male, female), B. putao sp. nov. (Myanmar; male) and B. tarang sp. nov. (Indonesia; male, female). These new species bring the total number of Belisana to 143 species worldwide.

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