Published December 6, 2022 | Version v1

Two new Eresus species (Araneae, Eresidae) from Xinjiang, China

  • 1. Hebei Key Laboratory of Animal Diversity, College of Life Science, Langfang Normal University, Langfang, China
  • 2. Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
  • 3. CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, China

Description

Eresidae C. L. Koch, 1845 contains nine genera and 102 species, of which 24 species belong to Eresus Walckenaer, 1805. Four species of the family are known from China: E. granosus Simon, 1895 (Beijing), E. kollari Rossi, 1846 (Hebei), E. lishizheni Lin, Marusik & Li, 2021 (Xinjiang) and Stegodyphus tibialis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) (Yunnan).

Two new species of Eresus are described from Xinjiang, China: Eresus da Lin & Li sp. n. and E. yukuni Lin & Li sp. n. Photos and morphological descriptions of new species are given.

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