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. – Female.
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Total length: 7.36–7.62. The specimen of total length 7.62 measured: carapace 3.47 long, 3.14 wide; abdomen 4.58 long, 2.76 wide. Cephalothorax: Carapace slightly raised on the median, light yellow, without markings. Cervical grooves, radial grooves and fovea indistinct. Eye area gray, compact, eye tubercles grayish-black, small, eye sizes and interdistances: ALE 0.17, PLE 0.16, AME 0.06, PME 0.14; AME-AME 0.17, AME-ALE 0.12, PME-PME 0.28, PME-PLE 0.20, MOA length 0.43 with front width 0.30 and back width 0.52. Sternum pale yellow. Chelicerae, gnathocoxae, labium yellow. Leg femora yellow, metatarsi and tarsi yellowish-brown. Leg measurements: I 19.20 (6.00, 7.20, 4.00, 2.00), II 18.60 (5.80, 7.20, 3.80, 1.80), III 9.50 (2.90, 3.80, 1.80, 1.00), IV 10.00 (3.00, 4.00, 2.00, 1.00); formula 1, 2, 4, 3. Legs light yellow. Spination: femur: I dorsal, weak spine: 0-0-1-0-0, II–IV 0-1-0-0-1, prolateral (weak) 0-1-2-1-1 (right), 1-1-2-1-1 (left); tibiae: prolateral I–IV 0-0-1-1, ventral I-II 2-2-2-2-2, III–IV 2-2-2, metatarsus I–II prolateral 1-0-0-1ap, ventral 2-2-2-2; III–IV prolateral 1-1-1ap, III ventral 0-2-2. Abdomen elongate oval, dorsum with broken silvery white spots; cardiac pattern gray, 2 pairs of muscular depressions visible; laterally silvery white; venter light yellow. Epigyne simple, atrium depressed; with a pair of sclerotized plates posteriorly; copulatory ducts curved in n-shaped; spermathecae spherical.
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<emphasis id="B94EEAB34544FFA82F20FA1C6884FA37" bold="true" box="[808,980,1420,1444]" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">
<emphasis id="B94EEAB34544FFA82F20FA1C68E5FA37" bold="true" box="[808,949,1420,1444]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">Distribution</emphasis>
. –
</emphasis>
<collectingCountry id="F32D76314544FFA82FE8FA1D6F72FA37" box="[992,1058,1421,1444]" name="China" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">China</collectingCountry>
(Tengchong County of 
<collectingRegion id="49FEF8434544FFA82937FA1D6ECBFA37" box="[1343,1435,1421,1444]" country="China" name="Yunnan" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">Yunnan</collectingRegion>
), 
<collectingCountry id="F32D76314544FFA82F20FA3D6832FA57" box="[808,866,1453,1476]" name="India" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">India</collectingCountry>
.
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<subSubSection id="C320652A4544FFA82F20FA7C68BAF877" pageId="3" pageNumber="42" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8B8536A14544FFA82F20FA7C68BAF877" blockId="3.[808,1448,1516,2020]" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">
<emphasis id="B94EEAB34544FFA82F20FA7C68F9F997" bold="true" box="[808,937,1516,1540]" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">
<emphasis id="B94EEAB34544FFA82F20FA7C68DAF997" bold="true" box="[808,906,1516,1540]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">Remarks</emphasis>
. –
</emphasis>
The 
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specimen of 
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<emphasis id="B94EEAB34544FFA828B8FA7D6EF8F997" box="[1200,1448,1517,1540]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">Platythomisus bazarus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was kept in ZSI and is unavailable for study by foreign arachnologists (
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). However, the locality of one of our specimens (Lataguri, 
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, 
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) is adjacent to that of 
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<emphasis id="B94EEAB34544FFA82816F9FD6E49F917" box="[1054,1305,1645,1668]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">Platythomisus bazarus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Nayabazar, West 
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, 
<collectingCountry id="F32D76314544FFA82FCCF91D68AFF937" box="[964,1023,1677,1700]" name="India" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">India</collectingCountry>
). After comparing the descriptions and figures of 
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<emphasis id="B94EEAB34544FFA82F91F93D6FDEF957" box="[921,1166,1709,1732]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">Platythomisus bazarus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFAB4B504544FFA82890F93D6E62F957" author="Tikader, B" box="[1176,1330,1709,1732]" pageId="3" pageNumber="42" pagination="1 - 83" refId="ref7339" refString="Tikader, B. K., 1970. Spider fauna of Sikkim. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 64: 1 - 83." type="journal article" year="1970">Tikader, 1970</bibRefCitation>
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, and those of our specimens (from 
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, 
<collectingCountry id="F32D76314544FFA82864F95D6FE0F977" box="[1132,1200,1741,1764]" name="China" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">China</collectingCountry>
), it was found that they should be the same species. Both of our specimens bear the following diagnostic characters of the genus 
<taxonomicName id="4C3A4D224544FFA82904F89D6E0DF8B7" authorityName="Thorell" authorityYear="1877" box="[1292,1373,1805,1828]" class="Arachnida" family="Thomisidae" genus="Epidius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="3" pageNumber="42" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B94EEAB34544FFA82904F89D6E0DF8B7" box="[1292,1373,1805,1828]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">Epidius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
: tibiae and metatarsi of legs I &amp; II slender with thick ventral spines, epigyne with an atrium and a pairs of posterior sclerotized plates, eye arrangement also as same as that of 
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<emphasis id="B94EEAB34544FFA82945F8FD6EF0F817" box="[1357,1440,1901,1924]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">Epidius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Because of those, 
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<emphasis id="B94EEAB34544FFA82FE8F81D6F9BF837" box="[992,1227,1933,1956]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">Platythomisus bazarus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
should be transferred to the genus 
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<emphasis id="B94EEAB34544FFA82FB3F83D6F5DF857" box="[955,1037,1965,1988]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">Epidius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as 
<taxonomicName id="4C3A4D224544FFA82830F83D6EF4F857" authority="(Tikader, 1970)" authorityName="Tang &amp; Yin &amp; Peng &amp; Griswold" authorityYear="2009" baseAuthorityName="Tikader" baseAuthorityYear="1970" box="[1080,1444,1965,1988]" class="Arachnida" family="Thomisidae" genus="Epidius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="3" pageNumber="42" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bazarus" status="comb. nov.">
<emphasis id="B94EEAB34544FFA82830F83D6FBAF857" box="[1080,1258,1965,1988]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">Epidius bazarus</emphasis>
(
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)
</taxonomicName>
, 
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.
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