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Yannan Mu1, Luyu Wang2, Songtao Shi3
1Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application; College of Life Sciences; Hebei University; Baoding; Hebei 071002; China. 15188605531@163.com.
Abstract:
The taxonomic placement of several Chinese phrurolithids is reviewed and revised, and two new records are presented. Two names are regarded as junior synonyms: Bosselaerius daoxianensis (Yin, Peng, Gong & Kim, 1997) Syn. nov. is synonymized with Alboculus zhejiangensis (Song & Kim, 1991), and Otacilia wenbi Mu & Zhang, 2023 Syn. nov. is synonymized with O. qiqiensis (Yin, Ubick, Bao & Xu, 2004). Three new combinations, all transferred from Otacilia Thorell, 1897, are proposed: Aculithus celata (Fu, Chen & Zhang, 2016) comb. nov., A. guposhan (Mu & Zhang, 2023) comb. nov., and Punctus valida (Fu, Chen & Zhang, 2016) comb. nov. Material previously reported as O. komurai (Yaginuma, 1952) from Chongqing was found to be misidentified, and this record is herein attributed to O. triangula Mu, Jin & Zhang, 2022. Two species of Phrurolithus C.L. Koch, 1839, namely P. nipponicus Kishida, 1914 and P. pullatus Kulczyński, 1897, are recorded from China for the first time.
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