A new species of the genus Xantharia from China (Araneae: Clubionidae)

Abstract

The spider genus Xantharia Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 was established by Deeleman-Reinhold (2001), who placed it in the subfamily Systariinae Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001, Clubionidae. However, Platnick (2010) lists Xantharia in the Miturgidae. We here follow the designation of Deeleman-Reinhold (2001), and list Xantharia in the Clubionidae based on a number of somatic and genital characters, such as a cylindrical body and non-striped carapace, male palpal bulb without median apophysis, vulva with insemination ducts ending in a T-junction between spemathecae and bursae. At present only two species, the type species Xantharia floreni Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 (from North Borneo), and X. murphyi Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 (from Western Sumatra), have been described in the genus Xantharia (Platnick 2010).