A new species of the Pholcus phungiformes species group (Araneae, Pholcidae) from Liaoning, China, with identification keys to four closely related species

Abstract

A new species of pholcid spiders, Pholcus fengmeii Zhang, He & Yao, sp. nov. (♂♀), is described from Liaoning Province, China. The new species belongs to the speciose phungiformes species group. Taxonomic keys to four closely related species are provided.

A new spider species of Belisana Thorell, 1898 (Araneae, Pholcidae) from Guizhou Province, south-western China

“…In recent years, a series of surveys of pholcid spiders have been carried out in China and a large number of new species have been reported (e.g. Yao et al (2021) , Lu et al (2022) , Zhao et al (2023b) , Yang et al (2024a) , Yang et al (2024b) , Zhang et al (2024) ). Nevertheless, these efforts focused on Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 from northern and central China, with relatively few reports on Belisana from southern China.…”