Eight new species of the spider genera Raveniola and Sinopesa from China and Vietnam (Araneae, Nemesiidae)

Shuqiang Li; Sergei Zonstein

doi:10.3897/zookeys.519.8784

Eight new species of the spider genera Raveniola and Sinopesa from China and Vietnam (Araneae, Nemesiidae)

Zookeys. 2015 Aug 26:(519):1-32. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.519.8784. eCollection 2015.

Authors

Shuqiang Li¹, Sergei Zonstein²

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
² Department of Zoology, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, 69978 Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Abstract

Eight new species, seven Raveniola Zonstein, 1987 and one Sinopesa Raven & Schwendinger, 1995 from China and Vietnam are described: Raveniola alpina sp. n., Raveniola bellula sp. n., Raveniola chayi sp. n., Raveniola gracilis sp. n., Raveniola rugosa sp. n., Raveniola spirula sp. n. and Raveniola yajiangensis sp. n. and Sinopesa ninhbinhensis sp. n. Keys to all East-Asian congeners, diagnoses of the new species, and new distribution data of Raveniola montana Zonstein & Marusik, 2012, with a first record for Sichuan, China, are provided.

Keywords: South-East Asia; Taxonomy; mygalomorph spiders; new records.