Two new species of the primitively segmented spider genus Songthela from Hunan Province, China (Mesothelae, Liphistiidae)

By

Li, Dengqing
Liu, Fengxiang
Li, Daiqin
Xu, Xin

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2020

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

937

Pages

1--19

Subjects

Araneae , COI , Morphology , Songthela , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.937.50548

 

Abstract

This study reports two new species of the primitively segmented spider genus Songthela from Hunan Province, China, based on morphological characters: S. huangyangsp. nov. (♂♀), S. xiangnansp. nov. (♂♀). Additional material also facilitates a more accurate description of S. goulouensis (Yin, 2001) with the first description of the male. Nucleotide data for the barcoding gene, cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI), is also provided for these three species.