Description on two species of genus Platythomisus (Araneae, Thomisidae) from China and Singapore

Yejie Lin; Joseph K H Koh; Lili Shao; Shuqiang Li

doi:10.3897/zookeys.852.34436

Description on two species of genus Platythomisus (Araneae, Thomisidae) from China and Singapore

Zookeys. 2019 Jun 5:852:73-84. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.852.34436. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Yejie Lin¹, Joseph K H Koh², Lili Shao³, Shuqiang Li³

Affiliations

¹ College of Life Science, Langfang Normal University, Langfang 065000, Hebei Province, China Langfang Normal University Langfang China.
² National Biodiversity Centre, National Parks Board, 259598, Singapore National Biodiversity Centre Singapore Singapore.
³ Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China.

Abstract

Two species of the genus Platythomisus Doleschall, 1859 are studied: P.xiandao Lin & Li, sp. nov. is described based on male and female specimens from Yunnan, China, and P.octomaculatus (C. L. Koch, 1845), the type species of the genus, is redescribed based on female specimens from Singapore. Its male, also from Singapore, is described for the first time.

Keywords: African region; Oriental region; new species; taxonomy; type species.