Original Articles
Generic placements of the Japanese species assigned to the genus Otacilia (Araneae: Phrurolithidae), with a description of a new genus
2022 Volume 71 Issue 2 Pages 135-140
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2022 Volume 71 Issue 2 Pages 135-140
Generic placements of seven Japanese species assigned to the phrurolithid genus Otacilia Thorell 1897 are examined. Four species are transferred to Acrolithus Liu & S. Li in Liu et al. 2022: A. meles (Kamura 2021) n. comb., A. mustela (Kamura 2008) n. comb., A. stella (Kamura 2005) n. comb. and A. vulpes (Kamura 2001) n. comb. A new genus is described under the name of Lunalithus n. gen., and one species is transferred to this genus: L. luna (Kamura 1994) n. comb. One species is transferred to the liocranid genus Paratus Simon 1898: Paratus kamurai (Ono & Ogata 2018) n. comb. Only Otacilia komurai (Yaginuma 1952) remains in the same genus.
