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Twenty new spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) from Late Cretaceous Kachin amber (Myanmar)

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

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Xin, Yafei, Jiang, Tongyao, Yao, Zhiyuan, Li, Shuqiang (2022): Twenty new spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) from Late Cretaceous Kachin amber (Myanmar). Zoological Systematics 47 (1): 1-65, DOI: 10.11865/zs.2022101, URL: http://zoobank.org/1c62670d-1ceb-4a0c-8a12-d8824f6b61da

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