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Genus: Qiongthela Xu & Kuntner, 2015 | Family: Liphistiidae Thorell, 1869

Qiongthela nui (Schwendinger & Ono, 2011)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:044561

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Described:

Distribution: Vietnam

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland m (ARTO-0024657) - (Schwendinger & Ono, 2011)
Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 2m 7f (ARTO 24658-24666) - (Schwendinger & Ono, 2011)
Paratype: Department of Zoology of the National Museum of Nature and Science (NSMT-Ar), Tokyo, Japan 1m 1f (9618-9619) - (Schwendinger & Ono, 2011)

Taxonomic References

Heptathela nui Schwendinger & Ono, 2011: 607, f. 21-33, 68 (Dmf) Original description

Qiongthela nui Xu et al., 2015a: 133 (T from Heptathela)

References

Schwendinger, P. J. & Ono, H. (2011). On two Heptathela species from southern Vietnam, with a discussion of copulatory organs and systematics of the Liphistiidae (Araneae: Mesothelae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 118(4): 599-637. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.117818 -- Show included taxa

Xu, X., Liu, F. X., Chen, J., Ono, H., Li, D. Q. & Kuntner, M. (2015a). A genus-level taxonomic review of primitively segmented spiders (Mesothelae, Liphistiidae). ZooKeys 488: 121-151. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.488.8726 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2015-05-04	New taxonomic reference entry	Xu et al., 2015a
2015-05-04	Species transferred to new genus	Xu et al., 2015a		Species transferred from Heptathela to Qiongthela