Bifurcia Saaristo, Tu & Li, 2006

Yang, Lan, Li, Shuqiang & Yao, Zhiyuan, 2024, Five new species of the spider genus Bifurcia Saaristo, Tu & Li, 2006 (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from Sichuan, China, Zoosystematics and Evolution 100 (2), pp. 705-720 : 705-720

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Genus Bifurcia Saaristo, Tu & Li, 2006 View in CoL

Type species.

Arcuphantes ramosus Li & Zhu, 1987 .

The five new species described below are assigned to the genus Bifurcia by the following characters: proximal cymbial apophysis ( PCA) pointing retrolaterally; bifurcated paracymbium (P); distal part of suprategulum ( SPT) large, blunt, and strongly sclerotized in retrolateral view; suprategular pit hook ( PH) reduced to small; median membrane ( MM) with chitinized basal part ( CPM); relatively thick and stout tipped pseudolamella ( PL); basal part of scape ( BS) nearly T-shaped ( Saaristo et al. 2006).

References

Li S, Sha Y, Zhu C (1987) Notes on spiders of genera Floronia and Arcuphantes from China (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Journal of Hebei University 7: 42 - 48.

Saaristo MI, Tu L, Li S (2006) A review of Chinese micronetine species (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Part I: species of ex- Arcuphantes and ex- Centromerus. Animal Biology (Leiden, Netherlands) 56 (3): 383 - 401. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 157075606778441886