Five new species of the spider genus Bifurcia Saaristo, Tu & Li, 2006 (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from Sichuan, China

By

Yang, Lan
Li, Shuqiang
Yao, Zhiyuan

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2024

Original Publication

Zoosystematics and evolution

Volume

100

Series / Issue

Issue: 2

Pages

705--720

Subjects

Biodiversity , micronetine , Morphology , sheet-web spiders , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.100.124160

 

Abstract

Five new species of the genus Bifurcia are described: B. kangdingsp. nov. (♂♀), B. labahesp. nov. (♂), B. ludingsp. nov. (♂♀), B. shuangqiaosp. nov. (♂♀), and B. xiaojinsp. nov. (♂♀) from western Sichuan, China. A distribution map of the species and illustrations of genital characters are provided in this paper.