Asianopis gen. nov., a new genus of the spider family Deinopidae from Asia

Yejie Lin; Lili Shao; Ambros Hänggi; John T D Caleb; Joseph K H Koh; Peter Jäger; Shuqiang Li

doi:10.3897/zookeys.911.38761

Asianopis gen. nov., a new genus of the spider family Deinopidae from Asia

Zookeys. 2020 Feb 12:911:67-99. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.911.38761. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Yejie Lin¹, Lili Shao², Ambros Hänggi³, John T D Caleb⁴, Joseph K H Koh⁵, Peter Jäger⁶, Shuqiang Li²

Affiliations

¹ Hebei Key Laboratory of Animal Diversity, College of Life Science, Langfang Normal University, Langfang 065000, China Langfang Normal University Langfang China.
² Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China.
³ Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Augustinergasse 2, CH 4001 Basel, Switzerland Naturhistorisches Museum Basel Basel Switzerland.
⁴ Zoological Survey of India, Prani Vigyan Bhawan, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata 700053, West Bengal, India Zoological Survey of India Kolkata India.
⁵ National Biodiversity Centre, National Parks Board, 259598, Singapore National Biodi-versity Centre, National Parks Board Singapore Singapore.
⁶ Senckenberg Research Institute, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt a. M., Germany Senckenberg Research Institute Frankfurt a. M. Germany.

Abstract

A new genus of the spider family Deinopidae C.L. Koch, 1850 is described from Asia: Asianopis Lin & Li gen. nov., with A. zhuanghaoyuni Lin & Li sp. nov. as the type species. The new genus is divided into two species groups, of which the liukuensis-group includes two species: A. dumogae (Merian, 1911) sp. reval. comb. nov. (♀) and A. liukuensis (Yin, Griswold & Yan, 2002) comb. nov. (♂♀); and the zhuanghaoyuni-group comprises five species: A. celebensis (Merian, 1911) comb. nov. (♂), A. konplong (Logunov, 2018) comb. nov. (♂), A. wangi Lin & Li sp. nov. (♂♀), A. wuchaoi Lin & Li sp. nov. (♂♀), and A. zhuanghaoyuni Lin & Li sp. nov. All previously described species are transferred from Deinopis MacLeay, 1839. Deinopis scrubjunglei Caleb & Mathai, 2014 is treated as a junior synonym of Asianopis liukuensis comb. nov.

Keywords: New combination; new species; species groups; systematics; taxonomy.

Yejie Lin, Lili Shao, Ambros Hänggi, John T.D. Caleb, Joseph K.H. Koh, Peter Jäger, Shuqiang Li.