Marusik Yu.M.1,2, Zhang Feng3, Omelko M.M.2,4,5 2012. A new genus and species of ctenid spiders (Aranei: Ctenidae) from South China // Arthropoda Selecta. Vol.21. No.1: 61–66 [in English].

1 Institute for Biological Problems of the North, Portovaya Str. 18, Magadan 685000, Russia. E-mail: yurmar@mail.ru

2 Zoological Museum, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland.

3 College of Life Science, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, China. E-mail: dudu06042001@163.com

4 Gornotaezhnaya Station FEB RAS, Gornotaezhnoe Vil., Ussuriyski Dist., Primorski krai 692533 Russia. E-mail: omelkom@gmail.com

5 Far Eastern Federal University, Sukhanova, 8, Vladivostok 690950 Russia.

doi: 10.15298/arthsel.21.1.05

KEY WORDS: Sinoctenus zhui, new genus, new species, Ctenidae, China.

ABSTRACT. Sinoctenus zhui gen.n., sp.n., belonging to Cteninae is described on the basis of three males from tropical forests in Hainan Island, southern China. Males have extraordinary long palps which are longer than the body, unusually shaped cymbium, a very large median apophysis covering almost the whole bulbus. Additionally, Sinoctenus gen.n. can be distinguished from other well-described ctenid genera by having a ridge on the retromargin of the chelicerae, just behind the teeth, and an elongate apical segment of posterior lateral spinnerets.

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