A new species of Pholcusyichengicus species-group (Araneae, Pholcidae) from Hebei Province, China

Ying Lu; Zhiyuan Yao; Qiaoqiao He

doi:10.3897/BDJ.10.e81800

A new species of Pholcusyichengicus species-group (Araneae, Pholcidae) from Hebei Province, China

Biodivers Data J. 2022 Feb 21:10:e81800. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.10.e81800. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Ying Lu¹, Zhiyuan Yao¹, Qiaoqiao He¹

Affiliation

¹ College of Life Science, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang, China College of Life Science, Shenyang Normal University Shenyang China.

Abstract

Background: The Pholcusyichengicus species-group currently contains 37 species. It is distributed in central and south-eastern China and Thailand, except for P.guani Song & Ren, 1994 from Liaoning Province, north-eastern China and P.clavatus Schenkel, 1936 which is widely distributed in the country.

New information: Pholcusbajia sp. nov. is described as a new species of the P.yichengicus species-group collected from Hebei Province, China.

Keywords: biodiversity; daddy-long-legs spider; morphology; taxonomy.

Ying Lu, Zhiyuan Yao, Qiaoqiao He.