Three new ant-eating spiders of the family Zodariidae Thorell, 1881 (Araneae, Zodariidae) from Xishuangbanna, China

By

Lu, Ying
Li, Shuqiang
Yu, Hao
Yao, Zhiyuan

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2023

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1175

Pages

321--332

Subjects

Biodiversity , Morphology , new species , taxonomy , Tropical Botanical Garden

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1175.107644

 

Abstract

Three new zodariid spiders from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden in Yunnan, China are described. A new species of the genus Euryeidon Dankittipakul & Jocqué, 2004, E. diansp. nov. (♂♀), and two new species of the genus Mallinella Strand, 1906, M. bannasp. nov. (♂) and M. menglasp. nov. (♂), are described. Euryeidon is reported for the first time in China.