On two new Oedignatha species from Xishuangbanna, China, and the first description of the female of Jacaena menglaensis Mu & Zhang, 2020 (Araneae, Liocranidae)

Abstract

Liocranid spiders from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden in Yunnan, China are studied. Two new species of Oedignatha Thorell, 1881, O. dian Lu & Li, sp. nov. (♂♀) and O. menglun Lu & Li, sp. nov. (♂♀), are described, and the female of Jacaena menglaensis Mu & Zhang, 2020 is described for the first time. The specimens studied are deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IZCAS) in Beijing, China.

Discovery of presumably introduced spiders, Oedignatha scrobiculata Thorell, 1881 (Araneae, Liocranidae) and Boagrius qiong Lin & Li, 2022 (Araneae, Palpimanidae) on Chichi-jima Island, the Ogasawara Islands, Japan

“…Terminology of the genital morphology is in accordance with Deeleman-Reinhold (2001) , Zonstein and Marusik (2020) , Lin et al (2022) , Sankaran (2022) , Lin et al (2023) and Lu et al (2023) . Abbreviations : ALE: anterior lateral eye; AME: anterior median eye: CO, copulatory opening; DS, dorsal scutum; E, embolus; ES, epigastric scutum; RTA, retrolateral tibial apophysis; S, spermathecae; TA, tegular apophysis; VP, ventral process.…”

One new genus and four new species of Liocranidae Simon, 1897 (Arachnida, Araneae) from China and Vietnam

“…Terminology and taxonomic descriptions follow Deeleman-Reinhold (2001) , Sankaran (2022) , Chu et al (2023) and Lu et al (2023) .…”

“… Liocranidae Simon, 1897, also known as spiny-legged sac spiders, are free-living, ground-dwelling hunters ( Gündüz and Allahverdi 2018 ; Dippenaar-Schoeman et al 2021 ; Lu et al 2023 ), currently containing 35 genera and 338 species ( WSC 2023 ). Liocranid spiders are distributed worldwide and live in a variety of ecosystems, including forests, intertidal zones, savannas, grasslands and even in desert regions ( Dippenaar-Schoeman et al 2021 ; Chu et al 2023 ).…”