Meotipa species (Araneae, Theridiidae) from China

Zhongwei Deng; Ingi Agnarsson; Zhanqi Chen; Jie Liu

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1082.75400

Meotipa species (Araneae, Theridiidae) from China

Zookeys. 2022 Jan 20:1082:153-178. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1082.75400. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Zhongwei Deng^{1

2

3}, Ingi Agnarsson^{3

4}, Zhanqi Chen¹, Jie Liu^{2

3

5}

Affiliations

¹ CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China.
² Hubei Key Laboratory of Regional Development and Environmental Response, Faculty of Resources and Environmental Science, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China.
³ The State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering of China, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, Hubei, China.
⁴ University of Vermont, Department of Biology, 109 Carrigan Drive, Burlington, VT 05405-0086, USA.
⁵ School of Nuclear Technology and Chemistry and Biology, Hubei University of Science and Technology, Xianning 437100, Hubei, China.

Abstract

In an ongoing effort to expand knowledge of the Chinese cobweb spider fauna (Theridiidae), the genus Meotipa Simon, 1894 is reviewed. Two new species are described, Meotipapseudopicturata sp. nov., Meotipastriata sp. nov., and five known species are redescribed: Meotipaargyrodiformis (Yaginuma, 1952), Meotipapulcherrima (Mello-Leitão, 1917), Meotipapicturata Simon, 1895, Meotipaspiniventris (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869), and Meotipavesiculosa Simon, 1895.

Keywords: Cobweb spider; comb-footed spider; flattened black spines; long-legged theridiid spiders; new species; taxonomy.

Zhongwei Deng, Ingi Agnarsson, Zhanqi Chen, Jie Liu.

Grants and funding

This study was financially supported by CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of SciThis study was financially supported by CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences (19CAS-TFE-3) and the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China (NSFC-31573236/31273268/31772420).ences (19CAS-TFE-3) and the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China (NSFC-31573236/31273268/31772420).