Three new ant-eating spiders of the family Zodariidae Thorell, 1881 (Araneae, Zodariidae) from Xishuangbanna, China

Ying Lu; Shuqiang Li; Hao Yu; Zhiyuan Yao

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1175.107644

Three new ant-eating spiders of the family Zodariidae Thorell, 1881 (Araneae, Zodariidae) from Xishuangbanna, China

Zookeys. 2023 Aug 18:1175:321-332. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1175.107644. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Ying Lu¹, Shuqiang Li², Hao Yu³, Zhiyuan Yao¹

Affiliations

¹ College of Life Science, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang 110034, Liaoning, China Shenyang Normal University Shengyang China.
² Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China.
³ College of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Integrated Mountain Research Institute, Guizhou Education University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China Guizhou Education University Guiyang China.

Abstract

Three new zodariid spiders from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden in Yunnan, China are described. A new species of the genus Euryeidon Dankittipakul & Jocqué, 2004, E.diansp. nov. (♂♀), and two new species of the genus Mallinella Strand, 1906, M.bannasp. nov. (♂) and M.menglasp. nov. (♂), are described. Euryeidon is reported for the first time in China.

Keywords: Biodiversity; Tropical Botanical Garden; morphology; new species; taxonomy.

Ying Lu, Shuqiang Li, Hao Yu, Zhiyuan Yao.