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Five new species of the spider genus Bifurcia Saaristo, Tu & Li, 2006 (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from Sichuan, China

  • 1. Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang, China|
  • 2. Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
  • 3. Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang, China

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Five new species of the genus Bifurcia are described: B. kangding sp. nov. (♂♀), B. labahe sp. nov. (♂), B. luding sp. nov. (♂♀), B. shuangqiao sp. nov. (♂♀), and B. xiaojin sp. nov. (♂♀) from western Sichuan, China. A distribution map of the species and illustrations of genital characters are provided in this paper.

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