New cave-dwelling armored spiders (Araneae, Tetrablemmidae) from Southwest China.
A new genus and five new species belonging to the family Tetrablemmidae are described from caves in Southwest China, i.e., Sinammaoxycera gen. & sp. n., Singaporemma banxiaoensis sp. n., Singaporemma wulongensis sp. n., Tetrablemma ziyaoensis sp. n. andTetrablemma 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.
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
Taxonomy; diagnosis; distribution; haplogyne spiders; new species