Four new spider species of the family Theridiosomatidae (Arachnida, Araneae) from caves in Laos.
FOUR NEW SPECIES OF THE SPIDER FAMILY THERIDIOSOMATIDAE ARE DESCRIBED FROM CAVES IN LAOS: Alaria cavernicola sp. n. (♂♀), A. navicularis sp. n., (♂♀) A. bicornis sp. n. (♂♀), Chthonopes thakekensis sp. n. (♀). Diagnoses and illustrations for all new taxa are given. All holotypes are deposited in the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt am Main, Germany (SMF).
Key Laboratory of Bio-resources and Eco-environment (Ministry of Education), College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610064, China.
Yucheng
Y
Lin
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Shuqiang
S
Li
Arachnology, Senckenberg Research Institute, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Peter
P
Jäger
Araneoidea; Cave spiders; Indochina; Orbiculariae; limestone karst; taxonomy