Ground spiders (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) from Jiangxi Province, China

Abstract

A list of 26 gnaphosid species belonging to 14 genera collected in Jiangxi Province, China, is provided. Three new species of ground spiders from Jiangxi Province of China are diagnosed, described, and illustrated: Haplodrassus yinae Liu, sp. nov. (♂♀), Hitobia xiaoxi Liu, sp. nov. (♂), and Zelotes dingnan Liu, sp. nov. (♂♀). Haplodrassus yinae Liu, sp. nov. was previously erroneously recorded in Jiangxi Province as H. montanusYin et al., 2012.

A new species of Mallinella Strand, 1906 (Araneae, Zodariidae) from South China

“…In the last three years, collections in Jiangxi Province in China led to the discovery of some new spider taxa, such as Agelenidae ( Liu et al 2021 , Liu et al 2020a ), Corinnidae ( Liu et al 2022b ), Phrurolithidae ( Liu et al 2020b , Liu et al 2020c , Liu et al 2021 , Liu et al 2022f ), Salticidae ( Liu et al 2022a ), Thomisidae ( Liu et al 2022c , Liu et al 2022e , Li et al 2022 ), Gnaphosidae ( Liu et al 2022d ), Trachelidae ( Zhang et al 2022 ) and now Zodariidae (this study). These discoveries support the fact that this Province still has distributions of many unknown species because of the lack of systematic research and attention.…”