A new species of Chilobrachys (Araneae, Theraphosidae) from Guangdong, China

BACKGROUND: The theraphosid spider genus Chilobrachys Karsch, 1892 contains 30 species, almost entirely limited to Indochina, India, Sri Lanka and China. Six species of Chilobrachys are currently known from China: C.dominus Lin & Li, 2022 (Yunnan), C.guangxiensis (Yin & Tan, 2000) (Guangxi,...

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Autores principales: Lin, Ye-Jie, Li, Shuqiang, Xie, Chunyan
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2022
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Taxonomy & Inventories
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9836454/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36761653
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e96467
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Li, Shuqiang
Xie, Chunyan
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description BACKGROUND: The theraphosid spider genus Chilobrachys Karsch, 1892 contains 30 species, almost entirely limited to Indochina, India, Sri Lanka and China. Six species of Chilobrachys are currently known from China: C.dominus Lin & Li, 2022 (Yunnan), C.guangxiensis (Yin & Tan, 2000) (Guangxi, Hainan), C.hubei Song & Zhao, 1988 (Hubei, Chongqing), C.jinchengi Lin & Li, 2022 (Tibet), C.liboensis Zhu & Zhang, 2008 (Guizhou, Guangxi) and C.lubricus Yu et al., 2021 (Yunnan). NEW INFORMATION: A new species, Chilobrachysqishuoi Lin & Li, sp. n., is described from Guangdong, China, on the basis of both sexes. This is the easternmost Chilobrachys species known. Photos and a morphological description of the new species are provided. Type materials are deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IZCAS) in Beijing, China.
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spelling pubmed-98364542023-02-08 A new species of Chilobrachys (Araneae, Theraphosidae) from Guangdong, China Lin, Ye-Jie Li, Shuqiang Xie, Chunyan Biodivers Data J Taxonomy & Inventories BACKGROUND: The theraphosid spider genus Chilobrachys Karsch, 1892 contains 30 species, almost entirely limited to Indochina, India, Sri Lanka and China. Six species of Chilobrachys are currently known from China: C.dominus Lin & Li, 2022 (Yunnan), C.guangxiensis (Yin & Tan, 2000) (Guangxi, Hainan), C.hubei Song & Zhao, 1988 (Hubei, Chongqing), C.jinchengi Lin & Li, 2022 (Tibet), C.liboensis Zhu & Zhang, 2008 (Guizhou, Guangxi) and C.lubricus Yu et al., 2021 (Yunnan). NEW INFORMATION: A new species, Chilobrachysqishuoi Lin & Li, sp. n., is described from Guangdong, China, on the basis of both sexes. This is the easternmost Chilobrachys species known. Photos and a morphological description of the new species are provided. Type materials are deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IZCAS) in Beijing, China. Pensoft Publishers 2022-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9836454/ /pubmed/36761653 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e96467 Text en Ye-Jie Lin, Shuqiang Li, Chunyan Xie https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Li, Shuqiang
Xie, Chunyan
A new species of Chilobrachys (Araneae, Theraphosidae) from Guangdong, China
title A new species of Chilobrachys (Araneae, Theraphosidae) from Guangdong, China
title_full A new species of Chilobrachys (Araneae, Theraphosidae) from Guangdong, China
title_fullStr A new species of Chilobrachys (Araneae, Theraphosidae) from Guangdong, China
title_full_unstemmed A new species of Chilobrachys (Araneae, Theraphosidae) from Guangdong, China
title_short A new species of Chilobrachys (Araneae, Theraphosidae) from Guangdong, China
title_sort new species of chilobrachys (araneae, theraphosidae) from guangdong, china
topic Taxonomy & Inventories
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9836454/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36761653
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e96467
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