Two new Eresus species (Araneae, Eresidae) from Xinjiang, China

Yejie Lin; Shuqiang Li; Xin Zhao; Zhanqi Chen; Haifeng Chen

doi:10.3897/BDJ.10.e94853

Two new Eresus species (Araneae, Eresidae) from Xinjiang, China

Biodivers Data J. 2022 Dec 6:10:e94853. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.10.e94853. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Yejie Lin¹, Shuqiang Li², Xin Zhao³, Zhanqi Chen³, Haifeng Chen¹

Affiliations

¹ Hebei Key Laboratory of Animal Diversity, College of Life Science, Langfang Normal University, Langfang, China Hebei Key Laboratory of Animal Diversity, College of Life Science, Langfang Normal University Langfang China.
² Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China.
³ CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, China CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences Mengla China.

Abstract

Background: Eresidae C. L. Koch, 1845 contains nine genera and 102 species, of which 24 species belong to Eresus Walckenaer, 1805. Four species of the family are known from China: E.granosus Simon, 1895 (Beijing), E.kollari Rossi, 1846 (Hebei), E.lishizheni Lin, Marusik & Li, 2021 (Xinjiang) and Stegodyphustibialis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) (Yunnan).

New information: Two new species of Eresus are described from Xinjiang, China: Eresusda Lin & Li sp. n. and E.yukuni Lin & Li sp. n. Photos and morphological descriptions of new species are given.

Keywords: Asia; DNA barcodes; diagnosis; taxonomy; type.

Yejie Lin, Shuqiang Li, Xin Zhao, Zhanqi Chen, Haifeng Chen.