Abstract
Six new genera, Pengaraneus gen. nov., Songaraneus gen. nov., Tangaraneus gen. nov., Wangaraneus gen. nov., Yinaraneus gen. nov. and Zhuaraneus gen. nov., and twenty species, including sixteen new, of the family Araneidae from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, south-west China are described: Cyclosa anjing sp. nov. (♂♀), C. daodai sp. nov. (♂♀), C. longquan sp. nov. (♂♀), C. xingqing sp. nov. (♂♀), Gasteracantha diadesmia Thorell, 1887 (♂♀), Guizygiella huahai sp. nov. (♂♀), Neoscona jinghongensis Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 (♂♀), N. piaoyi sp. nov. (♂♀), N. wuding sp. nov. (♂♀), Pengaraneus qingtian sp. nov. (♂♀), Poltys waipo sp. nov. (♂♀), Songaraneus jiekou sp. nov. (♂♀), S. tuihou sp. nov. (♂♀), Talthybia depressa Thorell, 1898 (♂♀), Tangaraneus geqian sp. nov. (♂♀), Wangaraneus yequ sp. nov. (♂♀), W. zioni (Mi, Li & Pham, 2023) (♂♀) comb. nov., Yinaraneus anhao sp. nov. (♂♀), Y. caihong sp. nov. (♂♀), Zhuaraneus daoxiang sp. nov. (♂♀). Wangaraneus zioni is newly recorded in China. Mature males of the monotypic genus Talthybia Thorell, 1898 (for the type species T. depressa) and Gasteracantha diadesmia, W. zioni, N. jinghongensis are described for the first time. Four new synonyms are proposed, Neoscona nautica (L. Koch, 1875)=Neoscona polyspinipes Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 syn. nov., Neoscona nautica (L. Koch, 1875)=Neoscona flavescens Zhang & Zhang, 2011 syn. nov., Neoscona vigilans (Blackwall, 1865)=Neoscona xiquanensis Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong, 2013 syn. nov, and Songaraneus ejusmodi (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)=Araneus qianshan Zhu, Zhang & Gao, 1998 syn. nov. Six new combinations are proposed, Songaraneus ejusmodi (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) comb. nov., S. perpolita (Thorell, 1893) comb. nov., Wangaraneus ryani (Mi, Li & Pham, 2023) comb. nov., W. zioni (Mi, Li & Pham, 2023) comb. nov., Zhuaraneus ethani (Mi, Li & Pham, 2023) comb. nov. and Z. eugenei (Mi, Li & Pham, 2023) comb. nov.
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