Sinodraconarius gen. n., a new genus of Coelotinae spiders from Southwest China (Araneae, Agelenidae)

Bing Li; Zhe Zhao; Chuntian Zhang; Shuqiang Li

doi:10.3897/zookeys.770.22470

Sinodraconarius gen. n., a new genus of Coelotinae spiders from Southwest China (Araneae, Agelenidae)

Zookeys. 2018 Jul 4:(770):117-135. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.770.22470. eCollection 2018.

Authors

Bing Li¹, Zhe Zhao², Chuntian Zhang¹, Shuqiang Li²

Affiliations

¹ College of Life Science, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110034, China.
² Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.

Abstract

A new genus of the subfamily Coelotinae F.O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893, Sinodraconariusgen. n., with four new species, S. cawarongensissp. n. (♂♀), S. muruoensissp. n. (♂♀), S. sangjiuensissp. n. (♂♀, type species), S. yuisp. n. (♂♀) and S. patellabifidus (Wang, 2003) comb. n., ex. Draconarius Ovtchinnikov, 1999 is described. The genus is restricted to Southwest China. Sinodraconariusgen. n. is most similar to Draconarius but can be distinguished by the shape of the copulatory organs. The DNA barcodes of all species were documented for future use.

Keywords: Asia; new combination; new species; taxonomy.