Three new species of the primitively segmented spider genus Songthela (Araneae, Mesothelae) from Guizhou Province, China

By

Chen, Zhaoyang
Li, Dengqing
Li, Daiqin
Xu, Xin

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2021

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1037

Pages

57--71

Subjects

COI , Heptathelinae , Liphistiidae , Morphology , taxonomy , trapdoor spiders

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1037.62916

 

Abstract

We diagnose and describe three new species of the primitively segmented spider genus Songthela from Guizhou Province, China, based on morphological characters and molecular data: S. liuisp. nov. (♂♀), S. tianzhusp. nov. (♂♀), and S. yupingsp. nov. (♂♀). We provide the genetic distances within and among the three new species based on the DNA barcode gene, cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) to support our descriptions. We also provide the COI GenBank accession codes for the three new species for future identification.