On two new Oedignatha species from Xishuangbanna, China, and the first description of the female of Jacaenamenglaensis Mu & Zhang, 2020 (Araneae, Liocranidae)

Ying Lu; Chang Chu; Shuqiang Li; Zhiyuan Yao

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1144.97073

On two new Oedignatha species from Xishuangbanna, China, and the first description of the female of Jacaenamenglaensis Mu & Zhang, 2020 (Araneae, Liocranidae)

Zookeys. 2023 Feb 2:1144:197-215. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1144.97073. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Ying Lu¹, Chang Chu¹, Shuqiang Li², Zhiyuan Yao¹

Affiliations

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

Abstract

Liocranid spiders from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden in Yunnan, China are studied. Two new species of Oedignatha Thorell, 1881, O.dian Lu & Li, sp. nov. (♂♀) and O.menglun Lu & Li, sp. nov. (♂♀), are described, and the female of Jacaenamenglaensis Mu & Zhang, 2020 is described for the first time. The specimens studied are deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IZCAS) in Beijing, China.

Keywords: Biodiversity; morphology; spiders; taxonomy; tropics.

Ying Lu, Chang Chu, Shuqiang Li, Zhiyuan Yao.