Two new species of the spider genus Lasaeola Simon, 1881 are described from China based on both sexes: Lasaeola pinna n. sp., and Lasaeola tengchongensis n.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe wolf spider of genus Xerolycosa Dahl, 1908 from China is reviewed, including four species: X. miniata (C.L.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwo new spider species of the genus L. Koch, 1872 are described from China: (♀) and (♀). The male of Jin, Yin & Zhang, 2017 is described for the first time.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThree new species of the genera C. L. Koch, 1846 and Prószyński, 1979 are described and named as (♂♀), (♀) and (♂♀), from Hunan Province, China.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe genus , found for the first time in China, is surveyed and seven new species, (♂♀, Thibet), (♂♀, Qinghai), (♀, Hebei), (♂♀, Tibet), (♂♀, Xinjiang), (♂♀, Tibet), and (♂♀, Tibet), are described. A new combination is proposed for (Tang, 2011) , ex. Thorell, 1870.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThree new species of the genus Asceua Thorell, 1887 are described and named as: A. calciformis sp. nov.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBoth sexes of three new species of the spider genus Araneus Clerck, 1757 are described and named as: A. breviscapus n. sp.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwo new species of the genus Clubiona Latreille, 1804 are described: C. tianpingshan sp. nov.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThree new species of Tanasevitch, 1992 from Yunnan province, China, are described: (♀), (♂♀), and (♂♀). The diagnosis of the genus is clarified, and extended detailed descriptions, photographs of somatic features and copulatory organs, and a distribution map are provided.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThree new species of Latreille, 1804 are described from China: Li & Liu, (♂♀) and Li & Liu, (♂♀) from Yunnan Province, and Li & Liu, (♂♀) from Hubei and Hunan provinces. Detailed descriptions, photographs of somatic features and copulatory organs, and a distribution map of these three species are provided.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFive new species of salticids were collected from China: Liu, (♂, ♀) from Gansu province, and Liu, (♂), Liu, (♂, ♀), Liu, (♂), and Liu, (♀) from Jiangxi Province. All species are described and illustrated with photographs and SEM micrographs, and their distributions are also mapped.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFour new species of the jumping spider genus Strand, 1906 from Guizhou and Yunnan, China are described: (♀), (♂♀), (♂♀), and (♀). Photographs of the habitus and copulatory organs and a distributional map are provided.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStertinius Simon, 1890 belongs in the subtribe Simaethina Simon, 1903 of the subfamily Salticinae Blackwall, 1841 (Maddison 2015), which represents a group of small spiders with flatted prosoma and conspicuous, sclerotized sigillae (Logunov et al. 1997; Logunov 2018). Currently, a total of 12 species have been described mainly from East and Southeast Asia, of which five species have only one sex described (World Spider Catalog 2020).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlmost all of the tetragnathid spiders have eight eyes, while two Dolichognatha species, D. longiceps (Thorell, 1895) (Sunil Jose 2014: 474, figs 1A-B) and D. junlitjri (Barrion-Dupo Barrion, 2014) (Barrion-Dupo Barrion 2014: 196, figs 1A-B) have six eyes (PME absent).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwo new species of Clerck, 1757 are described: (♂♀) and (♂♀) from Yunnan and Hubei provinces. The male of Song & Zhu, 1992 is described here for the first time. All species treated in this study belong to species group.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe wolf spider genus Artoria Thorell, 1877 is a common group in Australasia, currently including 41 species from Australia, three from New Zealand and four from Pacific islands (Framenau Baehr 2018; Word Spider Catalog 2019). This does not, however, comprise the whole distribution of the genus. The type species, A.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFour new species of the genus Cicurina are described: C. daweishanensis spec. nov.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA new Linyphiinae genus from Yunnan Province is described together with its two new species: (♂) and (♂, ♀). Hu & Li, 1987 is transferred to and a new combination, (Hu & Li, 1987), is proposed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe family Caponiidae Simon, 1890 is reported for the first time from China. The total number of the known spider families from China increases to 72 with the addition of this family newly recorded in the present paper. Based on male and female specimens collected from Guangxi, China, Platnick & Jäger, 2008 is illustrated and a global distribution map is generated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThree new species of the genus Irura are described from China: I. montiformis sp. nov.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe present paper deals with two new species of , (female and male) and (female and male). The male of differs from the related species Song & Chai, 1992 in ventral view of palpal organ. The female of differs from the related species Żabka, 1981 by: 1) hoods locate at the anterior area of epigynum and far away from the copulatory openings; 2) epigynum about circular; 3) copulatory openings transverse.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe present paper deals with three species of the genus from China, including Wang, 1990, (male), and (female and male). differs from the related species Wang, 1990 by: cymbial tip with several slender long macrosetae; cymbium boat-shaped, length/width ratio about 3/1 in retrolateral view; vexillum about 1/2 length of cymbium in retrolateral view. differs from the related species Song & Zhu, 1993 by: the opisthosoma with a pair of distinct outgrowths in the dorsum; sperm duct nearly horizontal; spermathecae kidney shaped and contiguous.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwo new species of the orb-weaver genus from Yunnan Province, China are described: . (male and female) from the Gaoligong Mountains and Ailao Mountains, and (male and female) from the Gaoligong Mountains. .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFive new species of Phintella are described from the Wuling Mountains, China: Phintellaarcuata sp. n. (male and female), Phintellalevii sp.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwo new species and one new record of the Hitobia are described from Gaoligong Mountains, Yunnan Province, China: Hitobiatengchong sp. n. (male), Hitobiahirtella sp.
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