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Genus: Otacilia Thorell, 1897 | Family: Phrurolithidae Banks, 1892

Otacilia bifida (Yin, Ubick, Bao & Xu, 2004)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040365

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Described:

Distribution: China

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Holotype: College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University (HNU), Changsha, China m (98-NK-48) - (Yin et al., 2004c)
Paratype: College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University (HNU), Changsha, China 1f - (Yin et al., 2004c)
Paratype: California Academy of Sciences (CAS), San Francisco, USA 1m - (Yin et al., 2004c)

Taxonomic References

Phrurolithus bifidus Yin et al., 2004c: 271, f. 1-7 (Dmf) Original description

Otacilia bifida Zamani & Marusik, 2020b: 312 (T from Phrurolithus)

References

Yin, C. M., Ubick, D., Bao, Y. H. & Xu, X. A. (2004c). Three new species of the spider genus Phrurolithus from China (Araneae, Corinnidae). Journal of Arachnology 32(2): 270-275. doi: 10.1636/H02-69 -- Show included taxa

Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2020b). A survey of Phrurolithidae (Arachnida: Araneae) in southern Caucasus, Iran and Central Asia. Zootaxa 4758(2): 311-329. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4758.2.6 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2020-03-30	New taxonomic reference entry	Zamani & Marusik, 2020b
2020-03-30	Species transferred to new genus	Zamani & Marusik, 2020b		Species transferred from Phrurolithus to Otacilia