Abstract
A new species of the genre Yuelushannus Irfan, Zhou, Bashir, Mukhtar and Peng, 2020 is described here from the National Nature Reserve of the Danxia Mountain, Guangdong, China: Y. Danxia He and guo, sp. nov. Detailed descriptions, photographs of copulatory organs and somatic characteristics, and a distribution map are provided.
Keywords: Biodiversity, description, morphology, leaf-Web spiders, taxonomy
Family Linyphiidae Blackwall 1859
Subfamily Erigoninae Emeton, 1882
Gender Yuelushannus Irfan et al., 2020
Guy Yuelushannus barbatus Irfan et al. Hunan2020 quote, China; Male gender.
Gender Yuelushannus It comprises five species distributed in the provinces of Hubei and Hunan, China (Spider World catalog, 2024).
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Yuelushannus Danxia sp. nov.male, holotype (A – c) and female paratpe (d – f). (A, d). Habitus, dorsal view. (be). Habitus, side view. (C, E). Habitus, ventral view. Scale bars: 0.5 mm. |
Yuelushannus Danxia He and guo, sp. nov.
(丹霞岳麓山蛛)
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