Three new species of the primitively segmented spider genus Songthela (Mesothelae, Liphistiidae, Heptathelinae) from Hunan Province, China

Yan Zhang; Zhaoyang Chen; Daiqin Li; Xin Xu

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1154.98273

Three new species of the primitively segmented spider genus Songthela (Mesothelae, Liphistiidae, Heptathelinae) from Hunan Province, China

Zookeys. 2023 Mar 17:1154:17-31. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1154.98273. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Yan Zhang¹, Zhaoyang Chen¹, Daiqin Li², Xin Xu¹

Affiliations

¹ College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, Hunan Province, China Hunan Normal University Changsha China.
² Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 14 Science Drive 4, 117543, Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore Singapore.

Abstract

Three new species of the primitively segmented spider genus Songthela Ono, 2000 are identified and described from Hunan Province, China, based on morphological characters of males and females: S.anhua Zhang & Xu, sp. nov. (♂♀), S.longhui Zhang & Xu, sp. nov. (♂♀), and S.zhongpo Zhang & Xu, sp. nov. (♂♀). All the new Songthela species belong to the multidentata-group according to male palp and female genital morphology.

Keywords: Araneae; morphology; taxonomy; trapdoor spiders.

Yan Zhang, Zhaoyang Chen, Daiqin Li, Xin Xu.