Otacilia tham spec. nov. and O. saszykaska spec. nov. from Laos, the first two cave-dwelling guardstone spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Phrurolithidae)

Acta Arachnologica

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Peter Jäger¹ 

[1] Arachnology, Senckenberg Research Institute

关键词: mainland Southeast Asia;    new species;    systematics;    taxonomy;    troglobiont;   

DOI  :  10.2476/asjaa.71.147

学科分类：动物科学

来源: Arachnological Society of Japan

【 摘 要 】

Two new species of the genus Otacilia Thorell 1897 are described from the Vang Vieng Karstin northwestern Laos: O. tham spec. nov., the first species of the entire family that lives in caves and is blind,i.e. has only non-functional remnants of the four lateral eyes, and O. saszykaska spec. nov., a cave-dwellingspecies with eight eyes, and posterior median eyes strongly reduced in size. A distribution map of E- and SEAsian genera of Phrurolithidae is provided.

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