Clubionidae from Laos and Thailand (Arachnida: Araneae)

Abstract

Clubionidae collected in Laos and Thailand were investigated. Seven new species are described: Clubiona kai spec. nov.

Figure 30 from: Zhang J, Yu H, Li S (2021) Taxonomic studies on the sac spider genus Clubiona (Araneae, Clubionidae) from Xishuangbanna Rainforest, China. In: Li S (Ed.) Spiders of Xishuangbanna, China. ZooKeys 1034: 1-163. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1034.59413

“…The females were identified as C. circulata based on comparison with the original illustrations of Zhang and Yin (1998). However, the males were identified to be C. vukomi, which was established as a new species by Jäger and Dankittipakul (2010) from Luang Nam Tha Province in Laos. Our molecular analysis of COI indicates that the female of C. circulata and the male of C. vukomi are conspecific, and therefore C. vukomi should be considered a junior synonym of C. circulata.…”

“…This genus comprises 61% of the total number of species of the family (Marusik and Omelko 2018;WSC 2021). Despite its high species diversity, the genus Clubiona remains inadequately studied: almost half of the species are known from a single sex or juveniles (82 from males only, 133 from females only, two from juveniles only), and in some cases, the adults are apparently mismatched, or conspecific males and females have been described as separate species (Deeleman-Reinhold 2001;Jäger and Dankittipakul 2010;WSC 2021); the descriptions from early studies are rather brief, many species are not illustrated, or illustrations are inadequate; types of some species do not exist or are difficult to locate or access.…”

A new spider species of the genus <I>Sudharmia</I> from Sumatra, Indonesia (Araneae, Liocranidae)

“…As a result of this tremendous work, a considerable number of publications dealing with descriptions of new taxa were subsequently produced following her classification (Dankittipakul & Singtripop, 2008a, b, 2011Jäger, 2007;Jäger & Dankittipakul, 2010;Jäger & Praxaysombath, 2009;Ono, 2009;Zhang et al, 2009aZhang et al, , b, c, d, 2010.…”

Checklist of the Clubiona japonica-group spiders, with the description of a new species from China (Araneae, Clubionidae)

“…In the same book, Deeleman-Reinhold (2001) carried out intensive research on this group’s limits, supplemented some characters to support the monophyly of the group, and provided a checklist of C. japonica -group species from Southeast Asia. During the past decade, at least nine species belonging to the japonica species-group were reported and described from southeast Asia, China, and India (Dankittipakul and Singtripop 2008; Jäger and Dankittipakul 2010; Dankittipakul et al 2012; Keswani and Vankhede 2014; Wu and Zhang 2014). However, a few other known species are not assigned, although they exhibit typical japonica -group features.…”