Three new spider species of Araneus Clerck, 1757 (Araneae, Araneidae) from the Gaoligong Mountains of Yunnan, China.

Both sexes of three new species of the spider genus Araneus Clerck, 1757 are described and named as: A. breviscapus n. sp.

On two species of the spider genus Stertinius Simon, 1890 from China (Araneae: Salticidae).

Stertinius 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).

Two new species of the orb-weaver genus from Yunnan, China (Araneae, Araneidae).

Two 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. .