Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 5339 No. 2: 29 Aug. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-08-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5339.2.5
Page range: 185-195
Abstract views: 284
PDF downloaded: 84

A new species of Jacaena Thorell, 1897 (Araneae: Liocranidae) from Guiyang, southwestern China

The State Key Laboratory of Southwest Karst Mountain Biodiversity Conservation of Forestry Administration; School of life sciences; Guizhou Normal University; Guiyang 550025; Guizhou; China
School of Biological Sciences; Guizhou Education University; Guiyang 550018; China
The State Key Laboratory of Southwest Karst Mountain Biodiversity Conservation of Forestry Administration; School of life sciences; Guizhou Normal University; Guiyang 550025; Guizhou; China. School of Biological Sciences; Guizhou Education University; Guiyang 550018; China
School of Nuclear Technology and Chemistry & Biology; Hubei University of Science and Technology; Xianning 437100; China
Araneae morphology DNA barcoding new species taxonomy

Abstract

A new species belonging to the liocranid genus Jacaena Thorell, 1897, J. guiyang sp. nov., is described from southwestern China. A detailed description, diagnosis, photographs, and distribution map of the new species are given. DNA barcodes of the species were obtained and confirmed matching of the sexes, and are available for future use.

 

References

  1. Cheng, H. & Chen, J.Y. (2022) Guiyang: City of a thousand parks, city of forests. Society and Public Welfare, 8, 25–27.
  2. Dankittipakul, P., Tavano, M.L. & Singtripop, T. (2013) Revision of the spider genus Jacaena Thorell, 1897, with descriptions of four new species from Thailand (Araneae: Corinnidae). Journal of Natural History, 47, 1539–1567. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2012.763059
  3. Deeleman-Reinhold, C.L. (2001) Forest Spiders of South East Asia: with a Revision of the Sac and Ground Spiders (Araneae: Clubionidae, Corinnidae, Liocranidae, Gnaphosidae, Prodidomidae and Trochanterriidae). Brill, Leiden, 591 pp. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004475588
  4. Liu, K.K., Xu, X., Sheng, H.J. & Yin, H.Q. (2020) A new species of the genus Jacaena Thorell, 1897 (Araneae: Liocranidae) from China. Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 95 (3–4), 127–137. [2019] https://doi.org/10.3956/2019-95.3.127
  5. Lu, Y., Chu, C., Li, S.Q. & Yao, Z.Y. (2023) On two new Oedignatha species from Xishuangbanna, China, and the first description of the female of Jacaena menglaensis Mu & Zhang, 2020 (Araneae, Liocranidae). ZooKeys, 1144, 197–215. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1144.97073
  6. Mu, Y. & Zhang, F. (2020) The genus Jacaena Thorell, 1897 from southern China (Araneae: Liocranidae). Zootaxa, 4819 (2), 335–348. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4819.2.6
  7. Thorell, T. (1897) Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. LXXIII. Secondo saggio sui Ragni birmani. I. Parallelodontes. Tubitelariae. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia naturale di Genova, Series 2, 17 [= 37], 161–267.
  8. Wheeler, W.C., Coddington, J.A., Crowley, L.M., Dimitrov, D., Goloboff, P.A., Griswold, C.E., Hormiga, G., Prendini, L., Ramírez, M.J., Sierwald, P., Almeida-Silva, L.M., Álvarez-Padilla, F., Arnedo, M.A., Benavides, L.R., Benjamin, S.P., Bond, J.E., Grismado, C.J., Hasan, E., Hedin, M., Izquierdo, M.A., Labarque, F.M., Ledford, J, Lopardo, L., Maddison, W.P., Miller, J.A., Piacentini, L.N., Platnick, N.I., Polotow, D., Silva-Dávila, D., Scharff, N., Szűts, T., Ubick, D., Vink, C., Wood, H.M. & Zhang, J.X. (2017) The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling. Cladistics, 33, 576–616. https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12182
  9. World Spider Catalog (2023) World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Version 24.0. Available from: http://wsc.nmbe.ch (accessed 1 June 2023)
  10. Xin, J.Y., Zhang, H.N., Li, L.L., Zheng, Z.X. & Yu, H. (2020) Clubiona huaban sp. nov., a new C. trivialis group spider from southwestern China (Araneae: Clubionidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica, 29, 89–93. https://doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2020.02.002
  11. Yan, L.L., Qin, X.Z. & Yu, H. (2021) A new species of the Haplodrassus montanus-group from Guizhou, China (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica, 30, 123–127. https://doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2021.02.08
  12. Yang, B. (2020) ‘Lucid waters and lush mountains’: ‘Properties for happiness’ of Guiyang. Environment and Sustainable Development, 6, 108–110.
  13. Yu, H., Li, F. & Zhang, J.S. (2018) A new species of the genus Songthela from Guizhou Province, China (Araneae: Mesothelae: Liphistiidae). Turkish Journal of Zoology, 42, 715–721. https://doi.org/10.3906/zoo-1807-39
  14. Yu, H. & Zhang, J. S (2019) A new species of Mallinella Strand, 1906 (Araneae: Zodariidae) from Guizhou Province, China. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, 71, 3–8.
  15. Zhang, J.S., Zhang, W.L., Deng, L.J., Lu, Q.L. & Yu, H. (2022) Synema guiyang sp. nov., the fourth endemic species of Synema Simon, 1864 (Araneae, Thomisidae) from China. Biodiversity Data Journal, 10, e85072. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e85072
  16. Zhao, Y. & Peng, X.J. (2013) Three new species of spiders of the family Liocranidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from China. Oriental Insects, 47, 176–183. https://doi.org/10.1080/00305316.2013.811021
  17. Zhong, Y. (2018) Guizhou offers smart solutions for green development. Guizhou Today, 28, 71.