Lysiteles Simon, 1895

Zhang, Rui & Zhang, Feng, 2023, Two new species of crab spiders from Xiaolong Mountains in Gansu Province, China (Araneae, Thomisidae), ZooKeys 1160, pp. 75-87 : 75

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scientific name	Lysiteles Simon, 1895
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Genus Lysiteles Simon, 1895 View in CoL View at ENA

Type species.

Lysiteles catulus Simon, 1895 from Tamil Nadu, India.

Diagnosis.

See Tang et al. (2007) and Tang and Li (2010a, b).

Comments.

This genus includes 63 species mainly distributed in eastern Asia. It has never been revised in full, although new species have been described now and then in various papers. Most of the 44 Lysiteles species have been recorded from China, and three species have been recorded from Gansu Province.

Distribution.

Bhutan, China, India, Japan, Korea, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Vietnam.