A taxonomic monograph of the liphistiid spider genus Heptathela, endemic to Japanese islands

Among the eight extant genera of primitively segmented spiders, family Liphistiidae, two are confined to East Asian islands, Heptathela Kishida, 1923 and Ryuthela Haupt, 1983. In this paper, a taxonomic revision of the genus Heptathela (Heptathelinae) from Kyushu and Ryukyu archipelago, Japan is pro...

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Main Authors: Xin Xu, Hirotsugu Ono, Matjaž Kuntner, Fengxiang Liu, Daiqin Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2019-11-01
Series:ZooKeys
Online Access:https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/34494/download/pdf/