New species in science: [Arachnida • 2025] Yuelushannus Danxia • A new species of spider in the genus Yuelushannus (Araneae: Linyphiidae) by Guangdong, China

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).

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)

To He, F. Chen, JH Zhu and J. Guo. 2025. A new species of spider in the genus Yuelushannus (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from Guangdong, China. The European Zoological Journal. 92 (1); 528-534. DOI: DOI.ORG/10.1080/24750263.2025.2490065 [20 May 2025]

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