Four new species of Linyphiidae (Arachnida, Araneae) from Hunan Province, China

By

Yan, Wen-Long
Wu, Feng-Qin
Zhou, Yu-Chen
Peng, Xian-Jin

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2025-9-26

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1253

Pages

243--254

Subjects

Erigoninae , Gongylidioides , Gongylidium , Morphology , Nippononeta , sheet-web spiders , southern China , Southern China , southern China , southern China , southern China , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1253.165585

 

Abstract

Four new species of the spider family Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859 are described from Hunan Province, southern China: Gongylidioides heimifengensissp. nov. (♂♀), Gongylidium subbifurcatumsp. nov. (♀), Gongylidium trapeziumsp. nov. (♀), and Nippononeta anchoratasp. nov. (♀). Detailed descriptions, photos of habitus and copulatory organs, as well as a distribution map, are provided.