A new species of Sinopoda from China, with first description of the male of S.wuyiensis Liu, 2021 (Araneae, Sparassidae)

Yang Zhong; Meng-Yun Zeng; Chao-Lan Gu; Hui-Liang Yu; Jing-Yuan Yang

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1116.85303

A new species of Sinopoda from China, with first description of the male of S.wuyiensis Liu, 2021 (Araneae, Sparassidae)

Zookeys. 2022 Aug 9:1116:121-132. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1116.85303. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Yang Zhong^{1

2

3}, Meng-Yun Zeng¹, Chao-Lan Gu¹, Hui-Liang Yu^{2

3}, Jing-Yuan Yang^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ School of Nuclear Technology and Chemistry & Biology, Hubei University of Science and Technology, Xianning 437100, Hubei, China.
² Hubei Key Laboratory of Radiation Chemistry and Functional Materials, Hubei University of Science and Technology, Xianning 437100, Hubei, China.
³ Shennongjia National Park Administration, Shennongjia 442421, Hubei, China.

Abstract

One new species of the genus Sinopoda Jäger, 1999, S.muyuensis sp. nov. (♂, ♀), is described and figured from the Shennongjia Forestry District, Hubei Province, China. In addition, the male of Sinopodawuyiensis Liu, 2021 is described for the first time from the Wuyishan National Nature Reserve, Fujian Province, China.

Keywords: Biodiversity; Fujian; Hubei; huntsman spiders; taxonomy.

Yang Zhong, Meng-Yun Zeng, Chao-Lan Gu, Hui-Liang Yu, Jing-Yuan Yang.