Two new genera and five new species of Corinnidae Karsch, 1880 (Arachnida, Araneae) from China and Vietnam

Ying Lu; Chang Chu; Zixuan Lin; Dinh-Sac Pham; Shuqiang Li; Zhiyuan Yao

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1165.102672

Two new genera and five new species of Corinnidae Karsch, 1880 (Arachnida, Araneae) from China and Vietnam

Zookeys. 2023 May 30:1165:17-42. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1165.102672. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Ying Lu¹, Chang Chu¹, Zixuan Lin², Dinh-Sac Pham³, 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.
³ Vietnam National Museum of Nature (VNMN), Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, Cau Giay, Hanoi, Vietnam Vietnam National Museum of Nature Hanoi Vietnam.

Abstract

Six species of the family Corinnidae Karsch, 1880 are described from China and Vietnam. Fengzhengen. nov. is erected to accommodate F.menglasp. nov. (♂♀) from China; Penggen. nov. is erected to accommodate P.birmanicus (Thorell, 1897), comb. nov., P.borneensis (Yamasaki, 2017), comb. nov. and P.taprobanicus (Simon, 1897), comb. nov., transferred from Sphecotypus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895. Further new species described include Allomedmassatamdaosp. nov. (♂), Echinaxbaishasp. nov. (♂), Medmassalingshuisp. nov. (♂), and Spinirtashaoguansp. nov. (♂). The male of P.birmanicus is described for the first time.

Keywords: biodiversity; morphology; new taxa; taxonomy; tropics.

Ying Lu, Chang Chu, Zixuan Lin, Dinh-Sac Pham, Shuqiang Li, Zhiyuan Yao.