A newly-recorded species of the genus Ablemma Roewer, 1963 (Araneae, Tetrablemmidae) from China

Authors: Fu, Hongjin Country: People's Republic of China DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.10.e85365 Published: Jan. 1, 2022 Source: Biodiversity Data Journal OpenAlex: View in OpenAlex

Collection: Pensoft Publishers

Keywords: Asia · Topics: Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies, Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy, Genetic diversity and population structure

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Ablemma Roewer, 1963 is a species-rich genus of the family Tetrablemmidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873, currently comprising 28 known species. This genus is mainly distributed in Southeast Asia. Currently, only one species, A. prominens Tong & Li, 2008 is known to occur in China.The species Ablemma shimojanai (Komatsu, 1968), presently only known from the Ryuku Islands in Japan, is reported from China for the first time on the basis of material collected in Guangdong Province. A morphological description and detailed images are provided.

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