Published October 10, 2025
| Version v1
Journal article
Open
A survey of the spider genus Lipocrea Thorell, 1878 (Araneae, Araneidae) from Guiyang City, Southwest China: An integrated morphological and molecular approach
Authors/Creators
- 1. Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, China
- 2. Tongren University, Tongren, China
Description
A survey was undertaken to study the spider genus Lipocrea Thorell, 1878, from Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, southwest China. A total of two species is here addressed based on morphology and five methods of molecular species delimitation, comprising L. guiyang J. Zhang, Yu & Mi, sp. nov. and L. fusiformis (Thorell, 1877), the type species of the genus as well as a new record for mainland China. These two species are distributed in Huaxi District and Kaiyang County of Guiyang, respectively, providing the first formal record of this genus from mainland China.
Files
ZK_article_158340.pdf
Files
(18.9 MB)
| Name | Size | Download all |
|---|---|---|
|
md5:8dabeef089b0ede328d258939991ab08
|
18.9 MB | Preview Download |
System files
(226.4 kB)
| Name | Size | Download all |
|---|---|---|
|
md5:da7b6894d601125a407dbc4efe337c1d
|
226.4 kB | Download |
Linked records
Additional details
References
- Alioua Y, Bosmans R, Kherbouche O, Bissati S (2020) Distribution of the genus Larinia in the Maghreb, with the first record of Larinia chloris in Algeria (Araneae: Araneidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59(1): 1–4. https://doi.org/10.30963/aramit5901
- Barrett RDH, Hebert PDN (2005) Identifying spiders through DNA barcodes. Canadian Journal of Zoology 83(3): 481–491. https://doi.org/10.1139/z05-024
- Barrion AT, Litsinger JA (1995) Riceland Spiders of South and Southeast Asia. CAB International, Wallingford, 700 pp. [16 pls.]
- Bosmans R, Colombo M (2015) New species of spiders from Sardinia (Araneae), with ecological notes on Lipocrea epeiroides (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) (Araneae: Araneidae). Arachnology 16(9): 319–332. https://doi.org/10.13156/arac.2015.16.9.319
- Bouckaert R, Heled J, Kuhnert D, Vaughan T, Wu CH, Xie D, Suchard MA, Rambaut A, Drummond AJ (2014) BEAST 2: A software platform for Bayesian evolutionary analysis. PLoS Computational Biology 10(4): e1003537. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003537
- Chang YH, Tso IM (2004) Six newly recorded spiders of the genera Araneus, Larinia, Eriophora, Thanatus, Portia and Dolichognatha (Araneae: Araneidae, Philodromidae, Salticidae and Tetragnathidae) from Taiwan. Acta Arachnologica 53(1): 27–33. https://doi.org/10.2476/asjaa.53.27
- Cheng H, Chen JY (2022) Guiyang: City of a thousand parks, city of forests. Society and Public Welfare 8: 25–27.
- Darriba D, Taboada GL, Doallo R, Posada D (2012) jModelTest 2: More models, new heuristics and parallel computing. Nature Methods 9(8): e772. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.2109
- Ding KY, Pan JY, Deng CJ, Yu H (2024) A survey of genus Synagelides (Araneae: Salticidae) from Guiyang, Guizhou, China, with description of a new species. Acta Arachnologica Sinica 33(2): 112–119.
- Ezard T, Fujisawa T, Barraclough TG (2009) SPLITS: species' limits by threshold statistics. R Package Version 1.0-11.
- Folmer O, Black M, Hoeh W, Lutz R, Vrijenhoek R (1994) DNA primers for amplification of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I from diverse metazoan invertebrates. Molecular Marine Biology and Biotechnology 3: 294–299.
- Framenau VW, Castanheira PdeS (2022) Two new species in the orb-weaving spider genus Larinia Simon, 1874 (Araneae, Araneidae) from Western Australia. Zootaxa 5092(3): 350–360. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5092.3.6
- Framenau VW, Scharff N (2008) The orb-weaving spider genus Larinia in Australia (Araneae: Araneidae). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 66(2): 227–250. https://doi.org/10.3897/asp.66.e31685
- Gaymard M, Lecigne S (2018) Contribution à la connaissance de l'aranéofaune (Araneae) du Gard et en particulier du massif des Gorges du Gardon (Occitanie, France). Bulletin de l'Association Française d'Arachnologie 1: 1–39.
- Grasshoff M (1970) Die Tribus Mangorini. I. Die Gattungen Eustala, Larinia s. str., Larinopa n. gen. (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae-Araneinae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 51(3/4): 209–234.
- He LF, Jiang JM, Pan JY, Yu H (2023) Titanoecidae, a spider family newly recorded from Guizhou Province (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 32(2): 74–81.
- Hoang DT, Chernomor O, von Haeseler A, Minh BQ, Vinh LS (2018) UFBoot2: Improving the Ultrafast Bootstrap Approximation. Molecular Biology and Evolution 35(2): 518–522. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msx281
- Jiang QY, Dong YY, Xu Y, Yu H, Zhang JS (2025) Trochanteriidae, a spider family first recorded in Guizhou Province (Arachnida: Araneae). Sichuan Journal of Zoology 44(1): 69–76.
- Jukes TH, Cantor CR (1969) Evolution of protein molecules. In: Munro HN (Ed.) Mammalian Protein Metabolism. Academic Press, New York, 21–32. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-1-4832-3211-9.50009-7
- Kapli P, Lutteropp S, Zhang J, Kobert K, Pavlidis P, Stamatakis A, Flouri T (2017) Multi-rate Poisson tree processes for single-locus species delimitation under maximum likelihood and Markov chain Monte Carlo. Bioinformatics 33(11): 1630–1638. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btx025
- Kearse M, Moir R, Wilson A, Stones-Havas S, Cheung M, Sturrock S, Buxton S, Cooper A, Markowitz S, Duran C, Thierer T, Ashton B, Meintjes P, Drummond A (2012) Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data. Bioinformatics 28(12): 1647–1649. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bts199
- Kimura M (1980) A simple method for estimating evolutionary rates of base substitutions through comparative studies of nucleotide sequences. Journal of Molecular Evolution 16(2): 111–120. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01731581
- Kumar S, Stecher G, Li M, Knyaz C, Tamura K (2018) MEGA X: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis across Computing Platforms. Molecular Biology and Evolution 35(6): 1547–1549. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msy096
- Levy G (1986) Spiders of the genera Siwa, Larinia, Lipocrea and Drexelia (Araneae: Araneidae) from Israel. Bulletin – British Arachnological Society 7: 1–10.
- Li FY, Lin YJ, Li SQ (2023) Notes on two Stiphropus species from China (Araneae, Thomisidae). Biodiversity Data Journal 11(e105695): 1–12. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e105695
- Long FY, Deng LJ, Mao JL, Yu H (2022) A survey of genus Philodromus (Araneae: Philodromidae) from Guiyang, Guizhou, China, with description of a new species. Acta Arachnologica Sinica 31(2): 113–120.
- Minh BQ, Schmidt HA, Chernomor O, Schrempf D, Woodhams MD, von Haeseler A, Lanfear R (2020) IQ-TREE 2: New Models and Efficient Methods for Phylogenetic Inference in the Genomic Era. Molecular Biology and Evolution 37(5): 1530–1534. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaa015
- Morano E (2023) La familia Araneidae Clerck, 1757 (Arachnida: Araneae) en al ámbito ibero-balear. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 42: 67–118.
- NCBI (2025) National Library of Medicine. The National Center for Biotechnology Information. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ [accessed on 19 January 2025]
- Nei M, Kumar S (2000) Molecular evolution and phylogenetics. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 333 pp. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195135848.001.0001
- Okuma C, Kamal NQ, Hirashima Y, Alam MZ, Ogata K (1993) Illustrated Monograph of the Rice Field Spiders of Bangladesh. Institute of Postgraduate Studies in Agriculture (Salna, Gazipur, Bangladesh). Japan International Cooperation Agency Project Publication, 93 pp.
- Pan TQ, Deng CJ, Zhang YH, Yu H (2024) A survey of genus Lysiteles (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Guiyang, with description of a new species. Sichuan Journal of Zoology 43(2): 215–224.
- Pons J, Barraclough TG, Gomez-Zurita J, Cardoso A, Duran DP, Hazell S, Kamoun S, Sumlin WD, Vogler AP (2006) Sequence-based species delimitation for the DNA taxonomy of undescribed insects. Systematic Biology 55(4): 595–609. https://doi.org/10.1080/10635150600852011
- Puillandre N, Lambert A, Brouillet S, Achaz G (2012) ABGD, Automatic Barcode Gap Discovery for primary species delimitation. Molecular Ecology 21(8): 1864–1877. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05239.x
- R Development Core Team (2024) R Foundation for Statistical Computing. Vienna. http://www.R-project.org/ [Accessed on 5 May 2025]
- Rambaut A (2012) FigTree Version 1.4.0. http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/software/figtree/ [accessed on 5 May 2025]
- Ronquist F, Teslenko M, van der Mark P, Ayres DL, Darling A, Hohna S, Larget B, Liu L, Suchard MA, Huelsenbeck JP (2012) MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian phylogenetic inference and model choice across a large model space. Systematic Biology 61(3): 539–542. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/sys029
- Scharff N, Coddington JA, Blackledge TA, Agnarsson I, Framenau VW, Szűts T, Hayashi CY, Dimitrov D (2020) Phylogeny of the orb-weaving spider family Araneidae (Araneae: Araneoidea). Cladistics: The International Journal of the Willi Hennig Society 36(1): 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12382
- Simon E (1887) Observation sur divers arachnides: synonymies et descriptions. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 7(Bull.): 158–159. [167, 175–176, 186–187, 193–195.]
- Tanikawa A (1989) Japanese spiders of the genus Larinia Simon (Araneae: Araneidae). Acta Arachnologica 38(2): 31–47. https://doi.org/10.2476/asjaa.38.31
- Tanikawa A (2007) An Identification Guide to the Japanese Spiders of the Families Araneidae, Nephilidae and Tetragnathidae. Arachnological Society of Japan, 121 pp.
- Tanikawa A (2009) Hersiliidae. Nephilidae, Tetragnathidae, Araneidae. In: Ono H (Ed.) The Spiders of Japan with Keys to the Families and Genera and Illustrations of the Species. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, 149 pp. [403–463.]
- Tanikawa A, Petcharad B (2021) A new species of Larinia (Araneae: Araneidae) from Thailand. Acta Arachnologica 70(1): 11–16. https://doi.org/10.2476/asjaa.70.11
- Tanikawa A, Into T, Petcharad B (2023) A new species of Larinia (Araneae: Araneidae) discovered in rice fields in Thailand. Acta Arachnologica 72(1): 55–58. https://doi.org/10.2476/asjaa.72.55
- Thorell T (1877) Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. I. Ragni di Selebes raccolti nel 1874 dal Dott. O. Beccari. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 10: 341–637.
- Thorell T (1878) Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. II. Ragni di Amboina raccolti Prof. O. Beccari. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 13: 5–317.
- Thorell T (1887) Viaggio di L. Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. II. Primo saggio sui ragni birmani. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 25: 5–417.
- Thorell T (1898) Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. LXXX. Secondo saggio sui Ragni birmani. II. Retitelariae et Orbitelariae. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 39: 271–378.
- Wheeler W, Coddington J, Crowley L, Dimitrov D, Goloboff P, Griswold C, Hormiga G, Prendini L, Ramírez M, Sierwald P, Almeida-Silva L, Alvarez-Padilla F, Arnedo M, Benavides Silva L, Benjamin S, Bond J, Grismado C, Hasan E, Hedin M, Izquierdo M, Labarque F, Ledford J, Lopardo L, Maddison W, Miller J, Piacentini L, Platnick N, Polotow D, Silva-Dávila D, Scharff N, Szűts T, Ubick D, Vink C, Wood H, Zhang J (2016) The spider tree of life: Phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling. Cladistics: The International Journal of the Willi Hennig Society 33(6): 574–616. https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12182
- World Spider Catalog (2025) Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern. http://wsc.nmbe.ch [accessed on 19 April 2025]
- Xin JY, Zhang HN, Li LL, Zheng ZX, Yu H (2020) Clubiona huaban sp. nov., a new C. trivialis group spider from southwestern China (Araneae: Clubionidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 29: 89–93. https://doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2020.02.002
- Xu X, Liu FX, Ono H, Chen J, Kuntner M, Li DQ (2017) Targeted sampling in Ryukyus facilitates species delimitation of the primitively segmented spider genus Ryuthela (Araneae, Mesothelae, Liphistiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 181(4): 867–909. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx024
- Yan LL, Qin XZ, Yu H (2021) A new species of the Haplodrassus montanus-group from Guizhou, China (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 30: 123–127.
- Yang B (2020) 'Lucid waters and lush mountains': 'Properties for happiness' of Guiyang. Environment and Sustainable Development 6: 108–110.
- Yang L, Zhao FY, He QQ, Yao ZY (2023a) A survey of pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae) from Guiyang, Guizhou Province, China. ZooKeys 1186: 175–184. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1186.105736
- Yang WC, Deng LJ, Yu H, Zhong Y (2023b) A new species of Jacaena Thorell, 1897 (Araneae: Liocranidae) from Guiyang, southwestern China. Zootaxa 5339(2): 185–195. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5339.2.5
- Yang WC, Zhou YF, Gu DX, Yu H (2023c) Pancorius guiyang sp. nov., a new species of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) from Guizhou Province, China. Biodiversity Data Journal 11(e108159): 1–12. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e108159
- Yu H, Zhang JS (2019) A new species of Mallinella Strand, 1906 (Araneae: Zodariidae) from Guizhou Province, China. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 71: 3–8.
- Yu H, Li F, Zhang JS (2018) A new species of the genus Songthela from Guizhou Province, China (Araneae: Mesothelae: Liphistiidae). Turkish Journal of Zoology 42(6): 715–721. https://doi.org/10.3906/zoo-1807-39
- Zhang JS, Zhang Q, Long FY, Yu H, Yi Y (2022a) Two new species of Diphya Nicolet, 1849 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) from southwest China. ZooKeys 1124: 131–145. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1124.86828
- Zhang JS, Zhang WL, Deng LJ, Lu QL, Yu H (2022b) Synema guiyang sp. nov., the fourth endemic species of Synema Simon, 1864 (Araneae, Thomisidae) from China. Biodiversity Data Journal 10(e85072): 1–11. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e85072
- Zhang JS, Xing YQ, Yang JH, Yu H, Zhong Y (2023) Two new species of Sinopoda from China, with first description of the male of S. horizontalis Zhong, Cao & Liu, 2017 (Araneae, Sparassidae). ZooKeys 1159: 133–155. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1159.101535
- Zhang JS, Zhang HS, Liu JX, Yu H, Xu X (2025) A survey of mimetid spiders (Araneae, Mimetidae) from Central Guizhou Province, China. Zoosystematics and Evolution 101(2): 711–734. https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.101.146895
- Zhong Y (2018) Guizhou offers smart solutions for green development. Guizhou Today 28: e71.