Two new species and three new records of the cobweb spider Platnickina (Araneae, Theridiidae) from Sumatra

By

Dhiya'Ulhaq, Naufal Urfi
Buchori, Damayanti
Hidayat, Purnama
Scheu, Stefan
Drescher, Jochen

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2025-10-23

Original Publication

Evolutionary systematics

Volume

9

Series / Issue

Issue: 2

Pages

203--220

Subjects

Arachnida , Biodiversity , Indonesia , Southeast Asia , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Hamburg Centrum für Naturkunde (CeNak) 2017-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.9.162623

 

Abstract

<br> Two new species of spiders of the genus<br> Platnickina<br> Koçak &amp; Kemal, 2008 are described from Sumatra, Indonesia:<br> Platnickina harapan<br> Dhiya’ulhaq,<br> sp. nov.<br> (♂♀) and<br> Platnickina debu<br> Dhiya’ulhaq,<br> sp. nov.<br> (♂♀). Three species are recorded for the first time from Indonesia:<br> Platnickina adamsoni<br> (Berland, 1934),<br> Platnickina fritilla<br> Gao &amp; Li, 2014, and<br> Platnickina xianfengensis<br> (Zhu &amp; Song, 1992). Detailed diagnoses, descriptions and high-quality photographs are provided for the newly recorded species.<br>