Abstract
Four new species belonging to Leptonetela Kratochvíl, 1978 and one new species belonging to Rhyssoleptoneta Tong & Li, 2007 are described from China: Leptonetela martensi spec. nov. (Guizhou; male, female), L. taixu spec. nov. (Guizhou; male, female), L. xianwu spec. nov. (Hubei; male, female), L. xinglong spec. nov. (Guizhou; male, female), and Rhyssoleptoneta aosen spec. nov. (Beijing; male, female). These new species bring the total number of Leptonetela to 117 species and Rhyssoleptoneta to 2 species worldwide.
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