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<mods:namePart>Yu, Li</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Liu, Fengxiang</mods:namePart>
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Genus 
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Xu, 2015.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="123">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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Males of 
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can be distinguished from those of all other six 
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genera by the blade-like conductor narrowing towards the apex (Figs 
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, 
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 5" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figure 5. Male and female genital anatomy of Qiongthela nankai sp. nov. A left palp, prolateral view B, E left palp, ventral view C left palp, retrolateral view D left palp, distal view F, G left palp, dorsal view H, I vulva, dorsal view J, K vulva, ventral view A-C, G XUX- 2019 - 174 (holotype) D-F XUX- 2019 - 172 H, J XUX- 2019 - 173 I, K XUX- 2019 - 175; Scale bars: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1009.57857.figure5" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/496169" pageId="0" pageNumber="123">5A-E</figureCitation>
, 
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 7" captionStartId="F7" captionText="Figure 7. Male and female genital anatomy of Qiongthela yalin sp. nov. A left palp, prolateral view B, E left palp, ventral view C left palp, retrolateral view D left palp, distal view F, G left palp, dorsal view H-J vulva, dorsal view K-M vulva, ventral view A-C, G XUX- 2019 - 140 (holotype) D-F XUX- 2019 - 138 H, K XUX- 2017 - 033 I, L XUX- 2019 - 139 J, M XUX- 2019 - 141; Scale bars: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1009.57857.figure7" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/496171" pageId="0" pageNumber="123">7A-E</figureCitation>
), and by the tegulum with two obvious apophyses (Figs 
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Male and female genital anatomy of Qiongthela dongfang sp. nov. A left palp, prolateral view B, E left palp, ventral view C left palp, retrolateral view D left palp, distal view F, G left palp, dorsal view H, I vulva, dorsal view J, K vulva, ventral view A-C, G XUX- 2019 - 159 (holotype) D-F XUX- 2017 - 065 H, J XUX- 2019 - 157 I, K XUX- 2019 - 160; Scale bars: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1009.57857.figure3" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/496167" pageId="0" pageNumber="123">3A-E</figureCitation>
, 
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 5" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figure 5. Male and female genital anatomy of Qiongthela nankai sp. nov. A left palp, prolateral view B, E left palp, ventral view C left palp, retrolateral view D left palp, distal view F, G left palp, dorsal view H, I vulva, dorsal view J, K vulva, ventral view A-C, G XUX- 2019 - 174 (holotype) D-F XUX- 2019 - 172 H, J XUX- 2019 - 173 I, K XUX- 2019 - 175; Scale bars: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1009.57857.figure5" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/496169" pageId="0" pageNumber="123">5A-E</figureCitation>
, 
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). Females of 
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differ from those of all other six 
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genera by the two pairs of the receptacular clusters with numerous granula (Figs 
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, 
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, 
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) (
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; 
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).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="123">Species composition.</paragraph>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="123">Q. australis</emphasis>
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(Ono, 2002), 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="123">Q. baishensis</emphasis>
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Xu, 2015, 
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Q. baoting" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="123" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="baoting">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="123">Q. baoting</emphasis>
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Yu, Liu, Zhang, Wang, Li &amp; Xu, 2020, 
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Q. bawang" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="123" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bawang">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="123">Q. bawang</emphasis>
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Xu, Liu, Kuntner &amp; Li, 2017, 
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Q. jianfeng" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="123" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="jianfeng">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="123">Q. jianfeng</emphasis>
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Xu, Liu, Kuntner &amp; Li, 2017, 
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Q. nui" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="123" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nui">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="123">Q. nui</emphasis>
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(Schwendinger &amp; Ono, 2011), 
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Q. qiongzhong" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="123" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="qiongzhong">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="123">Q. qiongzhong</emphasis>
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Yu, Liu, Zhang, Wang, Li &amp; Xu, 2020, 
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Q. sanya" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="123" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sanya">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="123">Q. sanya</emphasis>
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Yu, Liu, Zhang, Wang, Li &amp; Xu, 2020, 
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Q. wuzhi" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="123" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="wuzhi">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="123">Q. wuzhi</emphasis>
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Xu, Liu, Kuntner &amp; Li, 2017, 
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Q. yinggezui" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="123" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yinggezui">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="123">Q. yinggezui</emphasis>
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Yu, Liu, Zhang, Wang, Li &amp; Xu, 2020, 
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Q. yini" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="123" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yini">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="123">Q. yini</emphasis>
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Xu, Liu, Kuntner &amp; Li, 2017.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="123">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="123">China (Hainan), Vietnam.</paragraph>
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