ARPHA Preprints, doi: 10.3897/arphapreprints.e101572
Two new species of Sinopoda from China, with first description of the male of S. horizontalis Zhong, Cao & Liu, 2017 (Araneae, Sparassidae)
Jianshuang Zhang‡, Yuanqian Xing§, Jinghui Yang§, Hao Yu‡, Yang Zhong|‡ The State Key Laboratory of Southwest Karst Mountain Biodiversity Conservation of Forestry Administration, School of life sciences, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, China§ School of Biological Sciences, Guizhou Education University, Guiyang, China| School of Nuclear Technology and Chemistry & Biology, Hubei, Xianning, China
Corresponding author: Yang Zhong ( hubeispider@aliyun.com ) © Jianshuang Zhang, Yuanqian Xing, Jinghui Yang, Hao Yu, Yang Zhong. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
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Abstract
Three species of spider genus Sinopoda Jäger, 1999 are reported from southern China. Two of them are described as new to science: S. guiyang Zhang, Yu & Zhong, sp. nov. and S. xishui Zhang, Yu & Zhong, sp. nov., both from Guizhou Province. The male of S. horizontalis Zhong, Cao & Liu, 2017 is described for the first time based on new material from type locatily, Wuyishan National Nature Reserve, Fujian Province, China. Detailed descriptions, diagnoses, photographs and a distribution map of the three species are provided.
Keywords
Morphology, taxonomy, huntsman spider, new species, southern China