Four new species of the spider genus Cicurina Menge, 1871 from China (Araneae: Dictynidae)

Abstract

Four new species of the genus Cicurina are described: C. daweishanensis spec. nov. (female), C. kekei spec. nov. (male and female), C. lichuanensis spec. nov. (male and female) and C. yuelushanensis spec. nov. (male and female). Photos of body and copulatory organs, line drawings of copulatory organs, as well as the locality map are provided. The type specimens of Cicurina eburnata Wang, 1994 were reexamined for the comparison of allied species. Photos of C. calyciforma Wang & Xu, 1989 are also presented in order to compare it with two new species.

First records and a new genus of comb-tailed spiders (Araneae: Hahniidae) from Thailand with comments on the six-eyed species of this family

“…The family Hahniidae Bertkau, 1878 is relatively easy to identify due to the advanced location of the tracheal spiracle in relation to the spinnerets and the characteristic arrangement of these in more or less one transverse row (at least in the Hahniinae Bertkau, 1878) (Lehtinen 1967;Opell & Beatty 1976). Other members of this family (e.g., Cicurina Menge 1871 and Cybaeolinae Lehtinen, 1967) do not share this transverse arrangement of the spinnerets (Roth 1967;Wang et al 2019). The Hahniidae currently includes 351 species in 23 genera distributed worldwide (WSC 2020).…”