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Two new spider families from Late Cretaceous Kachin amber (Arachnida: Araneae)

  • 1. Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China & Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw 05282, Myanmar
  • 2. College of Life Science, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang 110034, Liaoning, China Corresponding authors, E-mails: yaozy@synu.edu.cn; lisq@ioz.ac.cn
  • 3. Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

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Jiang, Tongyao, Xin, Yafei, Yao, Zhiyuan, Li, Shuqiang (2020): Two new spider families from Late Cretaceous Kachin amber (Arachnida: Araneae). Zoological Systematics 45 (4): 266-280, DOI: 10.11865/zs.202033

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