New cave-dwelling armored spiders (Araneae, Tetrablemmidae) from Southwest China

By

Lin, Yucheng
Li, Shuqiang

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2014

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

388

Pages

35-76

Subjects

Diagnosis , Distribution , haplogyne spiders , new species , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.388.5735

 

Abstract

A new genus and five new species belonging to the family Tetrablemmidae are described from caves in Southwest China, i.e., Sinamma oxycera gen. & sp. n., Singaporemma banxiaoensis sp. n., Singaporemma wulongensis sp. n., Tetrablemma ziyaoensis sp. n. and Tetrablemma 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.