Taxonomic notes on eleven species of the subfamily Cteninae (Araneae, Ctenidae) from Asia

Abstract

The spider family Ctenidae Keyserling, 1877 has a worldwide distribution with 584 species belonging to 49 genera. Amongst these, 141 species are from Asia, including 130 species assigned to Cteninae Keyserling, 1877. Nine new species belonging to three genera of Cteninae are reported from Asia: Amauropelma krabi sp. n. (female; Krabi, Thailand), Am. phangnga sp. n. (male; Phang Nga, Thailand), Am. saraburi sp. n. (male and female; Saraburi, Thailand); Anahita medog sp. n. (male and female; Tibet, China); Bowie ninhbinh sp. n. (male; Ninh Binh, Vietnam) and B. vinhphuc sp. n. (male and female; Vinh Phuc, Vietnam) from the robustus-species group; B. borneo sp. n. (male; Sabah, Malaysia) from the chinagirl-species group; B. engkilili sp. n. (female; Engkilili, Malaysia); B. sabah sp. n. (male and female; Sabah, Malaysia) from the scarymonsters-species group. The male of An. popa Jäger & Minn, 2015 and the female of B. fascination Jäger, 2022 (robustus-species group) are described for the first time. B. fascination Jäger, 2022 is reported from China for the first time. In addition, the DNA barcodes of all the species in this study were obtained, except for B. vinhphuc sp. n.

On two species of Bowie Jäger, 2022 (Aranei: Ctenidae) from Vietnam

“…To date, a total of 17 Bowie species have been reported from Vietnam (Chu et al, 2022;Jäger, 2022;Lu et al, 2022;present data). Of them, eight species (47%) are currently known from both sexes, seven (41%) from males and two (12%) from females.…”

“…The wandering spider genus Bowie Jäger, 2022 was recently erected and revised by Jäger (2022). The genus currently accounts for 115 Oriental and Australasian species (WSC, 2024), of which 16 species have been recorded/described from Vietnam (Chu et al, 2022;Jäger, 2022;Lu et al, 2022). While sorting recently collected spider materials from Vietnam, a new and one recently described Bowie species have been found.…”