A new genus and nine species of jumping spiders from Hainan Island, China (Araneae, Salticidae)

By

Wang, Cheng
Li, Shuqiang

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2022

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1118

Pages

39--72

Subjects

Morphology , new combination , new taxa , rainforest , salticid , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1118.89337

 

Abstract

A new genus and eight new species of jumping spiders from Hainan Island, China are reported. Pengmarengogen. nov. is erected to accommodate the type species P. yangisp. nov. (♂♀). Further Pengmarengogen. nov. species including P. chelifer (Simon, 1990), comb. nov. (transferred from Philates Simon, 1900), P. elongata (Peng & Li, 2002), comb. nov. (transferred from Tauala Wanless, 1988), and two species transferred from Indomarengo Benjamin, 2004: P. yui (Wang & Li, 2020), comb. nov., and P. wengnan (Wang & Li, 2022), comb. nov. Another seven new jumping spider species are described from Hainan: Irura liaesp. nov. (♂), I. miisp. nov. (♂♀), Marengo ganaesp. nov. (♂♀), M. zhengisp. nov. (♂♀), Nungia tangisp. nov. (♂♀), Philates zhouisp. nov. (♂♀), and Toxeus hainansp. nov. (♂♀). The unknown female of the endemic species, Irura pengi Guo, Zhang & Zhu, 2011 is also described for the first time.