Review of the tent-web spider genus Uroctea Dufour, 1820 in China, with descriptions of two new species (Araneae: Oecobiidae)

ZI-ZHONG YANG; ZHI-BIN YANG; YU ZHAO; ZHI-SHENG ZHANG

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4679.1.8

Issue: Vol. 4679 No. 1: 1 Oct. 2019

Type: Article

Published: 2019-10-01

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4679.1.8

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**Review of the tent-web spider genus Uroctea Dufour, 1820 in China, with descriptions of two new species (Araneae: Oecobiidae)**

ZI-ZHONG YANG⁺⁻
ZHI-BIN YANG⁺⁻
YU ZHAO⁺⁻
ZHI-SHENG ZHANG⁺⁻

Yunnan Provincial Key Laboratory of Entomological Biopharmaceutical R & D Dali 671000, China National-Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Entomoceutics, Dali 671000, China

School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715 China

Araneae Urocteinae redescription new species taxonomy

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Abstract

This paper concerns four species of the spider genus Uroctea Dufour, 1820 (Oecobiidae) from China. Two species, U. compactilis L. Koch, 1878 and U. lesserti Schenkel, 1936 are redescribed. Two new species are described here under the names U. multiprocessa Yang & Zhang sp. nov. (male only, from Batang County of Sichuan Prov.) and U. yunlingensis Yang & Zhao sp. nov. (both sexes from Yunling Mountains area of Yunnan Prov.). Color images of habitus and genitalia, SEM images of the male palps, and illustrations of epigynes of all species are provided. Specimens examined are deposited in the Institute of Entomoceutics Research, Dali University, China (DUIER) and School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, China (SWUC).

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Bösenberg, W. & Strand, E.(1906) Japanische Spinnen.Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 30, 93–422.
Bosselaers, J.(1999) A newUrocteafrom the Jordan desert (Araneae: Oecobiidae).Phegea,27, 103–113.
Chen, Z.F. & Zhang, Z.H.(1991)Fauna of Zhejiang: Araneida. Zhejiang Science and Technology Publishing House, Hangzhou, 356 pp.
Coddington, J.A. (1990) Ontogeny and homology in the male palpus of orb-weaving spiders and their relatives, with comments on phylogeny (Araneoclada: Araneoidea, Deinopoidea). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 496, 1–52.
https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.496
Dufour, L. (1820) Descriptions de cinq arachnides nouvelles. Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques, 5, 198–209.
Feng, Z.Q.(1990)Spiders of China in colour. Hunan Science and Technology Publishing House, Changsha, 256 pp.
Jocqué R. & Dippenaar-Schoeman A.S. (2006) Spider families of the world. Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, 336 pp.
Kim, J.P. & Cho, J.H.(2002)Spider: Natural Enemy & Resources. Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Seoul, 424 pp.
Kim, J.P. & Lee, D.J. (1998) Distribution and taxonomic review of Urocteidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Korea.Korean Arachnology,14 (2), 51–65.
Kim, J.P. & Namkung, J.(1992) On the identity of Korean spider,Uroctea lessertiSchenkel 1937, is the speciesUroctea limata(nec. C.L. Koch).Korean Arachnology, 8, 101–107.
Koch, L. (1878) Japanesische Arachniden und Myriapoden.Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 27, 735–798.
Kullmann, E. & Zimmermann, W. (1976) Ein neuer Beitrag zum Cribellaten- Ecribellaten-Problem: Beschreibung vonUroecobius ecribellatusn. gen. n. sp. und Diskussion seiner phylogenetischen Stellung (Arachnida: Araneae: Oecobiidae).Entomologica Germanica, 3, 29–40.
Lamoral, B.H.(1981)Paroecobius wilmotae, a new genus and species of spider from the Okavango Delta, Botswana (Araneae: Oecobiidae: Oecobiinae).Annals of the Natal Museum, 24, 507–512.
Latreille, P.A. (1809)Genera crustaceorum et insectorum. Vol. 4. Amand Koenig, bibliopolam, Argentorati, 2 pp. [pp. 370–371]
Le Peru, B.(2011) The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae.Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon, 2, 1–522.
Lehtinen, P.T.(1967) Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha.Annales Zoologici Fennici, 4, 199–468.
Marusik, Y.M. & Fritzén, N.R. (2011) On a new Dictyna species (Araneae, Dictynidae) from the northern Palaearctic confused with the east Siberian D. schmidti Kulczyński, 1926. ZooKeys, 138, 93–108.
https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.138.1849
Namkung, J. (2003)The Spiders of Korea. 2^nd Edition. Kyo-Hak Publishing Co., Seoul, 648 pp.
Ono, H.(2009)The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, 739 pp.
Rheims, C.A., Santos, A.J. & Harten, A. van (2007) The spider genus Uroctea Dufour, 1820 (Araneae: Oecobiidae) in Yemen. Zootaxa, 1406, 61–68.
Schenkel, E. (1936) Schwedisch-chinesische wissenschaftliche Expedition nach den nordwestlichen Provinzen Chinas, unter Leitung von Dr Sven Hedin und Prof. Sü Ping-chang. Araneae gesammelt vom schwedischen Artz der Exped.Arkiv för Zoologi, 29 (A1), 1–314.
Shear, W.A.(1970) The spider family Oecobiidae in North America, Mexico, and the West Indies.Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 140, 129–164.
Simon, E.(1893)Histoire naturelle das araignées. Vol. 1. Roret, Paris, 232 pp. [pp. 257–488]
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.51973
Song, D.X., Zhu, M.S. & Chen, J.(1999)The spiders of China. Hebei University of Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp.
Song, D.X., Zhu, M.S. & Chen, J.(2001)The Fauna of Hebei, China: Araneae. Hebei University of Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 510 pp.
Thorell, T.(1869) On European spiders. Part I. Review of the European genera of spiders, preceded by some observations on zoological nomenclature.Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis, Series3,7, 1–108.
Wang, L.Y., Chen, H.M., Wu, P.L., Zhang, F. & Zhang, Z.S. (2018) Spider diversity in Fanjing Mountain Nature Reserve, Guizhou, China, II: Clubionidae (Araneae). Zoological Systematics, 43 (3), 317–333.
Wen, Z.G. & Zhu, C.D.(1980) Four species of male spiders (Araneae) from China.Journal of the Bethune Medical University, 6, 39–43.
World Spider Catalog (2019) World Spider Catalog. Version 20.5. Natural History Museum Bern, Bern. Available from: http://wsc.nmbe.ch (accessed 13 August 2019)
Yin, C.M., Peng, X.J., Yan, H.M., Bao, Y.H., Xu, X., Tang, G., Zhou, Q.S. & Liu, P.(2012)Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China. Hunan Science and Technology Press, Changsha, 1590 pp.
Zhang, Z.S., Li S. & Zheng, G. (2011) Comb-tailed spiders from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China (Araneae, Hahniidae). Zootaxa, 2912 (1), 1–27.
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2912.1.1
Zhang, Z.S. & Wang, L.Y. (2017) Chinese Spiders Illustrated. Chongqing University Press, Chongqing, 954 pp.
Zhu, M.S., Wang, X.P. & Zhang, Z.S.(2017)Fauna Sinica: Invertebrata Vol. 59: Arachnida: Araneae: Agelenidae and Amaurobiidae. Science Press, Beijing, 727 pp.
Zhu, M.S. & Zhang, B.S.(2011)Spider Fauna of Henan: Arachnida: Araneae. Science Press, Beijing, xxii + 558 pp.
Zhu, M.S.(1984) Notes on two Chinese species of family Urocteidae (Araneae, Urocteidae).Journal of the Shanxi Agricultural University, 4, 169–172.