A survey of Belisana spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae) from eastern Sichuan, China

By

Wang, Bing
Wang, Ying (Botanist)
Li, Shuqiang
Wu, Pengfeng
Yao, Zhiyuan

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2025

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1236

Pages

219--231

Subjects

Biodiversity , cellar spider , fogging , invertebrate , new record , new species , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1236.146511

 

Abstract

China exhibits remarkable diversity of the spider genus Belisana Thorell, 1898, while Sichuan Province has recorded only one species, Belisana maoer Yao & Li, 2020. In this study, four species were collected in eastern Sichuan by canopy fogging. These comprise two new species, Belisana miyi Wang, Li & Yao, sp. nov. and B. tongjiang Wang, Li & Yao, sp. nov., as well as two known species, B. tongi Zhang, Li & Yao, 2024 and B. yanhe Chen, Zhang & Zhu, 2009, which are reported from Sichuan for the first time. A distribution map of all five species is provided.