A checklist of spiders from Yongxing Island, South China Sea, with taxonomic notes on four species of goblin spiders

By

Tang, Jiaxin
Liang, Wei
Shi, Haitao
Gao, Caixia
Li, Shuqiang
Zheng, Guo

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2021-05-21

Original Publication

Biodiversity data journal

Volume

9

Pages

1--17

Subjects

Araneae , Checklist , new records , Oonopidae , Yongxing Islands

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers [2013]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e67087
eLocator: e67087

 

Abstract

Yongxing Island (about 1.85 km2) is the largest island of the Xisha Islands. It is located in the Western South China Sea and belongs to the tropical ocean monsoon climate zone. Yongxing Island is quite rich in biological resources, for example, plants and birds which have been well documented. However, there are limited reports on spider resources in Yongxing Island.<br> A preliminary checklist of spiders of the Yongxing Island is provided, based on a short-term study undertaken in January 2008. A total of 23 species, belonging to 21 genera and 11 families, were recorded from the area, which forms baseline information of spiders of the Yongxing Island. Amongst these, Oonopidae, Pholcidae, Araneidae and Salticidae were found to have more species in the area. Brignolia parumpunctata (Simon, 1893), Opopaea apicalis (Simon, 1893), Opopaea deserticola Simon, 1891 and Xyphinus baehrae Kranz-Baltensperger, 2014 were firstly reported from China, for which we provide taxonomic description in this paper.