Trapdoor spiders of the genus Cyclocosmia Ausserer, 1871 from China and Vietnam (Araneae, Ctenizidae)

Xin Xu; Chen Xu; Fan Li; Dinh Sac Pham; Daiqin Li

doi:10.3897/zookeys.643.10797

Trapdoor spiders of the genus Cyclocosmia Ausserer, 1871 from China and Vietnam (Araneae, Ctenizidae)

Zookeys. 2017 Jan 6:(643):75-85. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.643.10797. eCollection 2017.

Authors

Xin Xu¹, Chen Xu², Fan Li², Dinh Sac Pham³, Daiqin Li⁴

Affiliations

¹ College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, China; Centre for Behavioural Ecology and Evolution (CBEE), College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
² Centre for Behavioural Ecology and Evolution (CBEE), College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
³ Graduate University of Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, Cau Giay, Hanoi, Vietnam.
⁴ Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 14 Science Drive 4, Singapore 117543.

Abstract

A species of the genus Cyclocosmia Ausserer, 1871 collected from Guizhou Province, China is diagnosed and described as new to science: Cyclocosmia liui Xu, Xu & Li, sp. n. (♀). New records of Cyclocosmia latusicosta Zhu, Zhang & Zhang, 2006 (♀) from China (Yunnan Province) and Vietnam (Vinh Phuc Province, Ninh Binh Province), and Cyclocosmia ricketti (Pocock, 1901) collected from Jiangxi Province, China are also reported in this study.

Keywords: China; Cyclocosmia; Vietnam; taxonomy; trapdoor spider.