Published May 8, 2023 | Version v1
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Grandilithus Liu & Li 2022

  • 1. College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, Hunan, China & kekeliu @ jgsu. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7822 - 3667 & xux @ hunnu. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9485 - 5373 & yinhaiqiang @ hunnu. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0276 - 2407 & College of Life Science, Jinggangshan University, Ji'an 343009, Jiangxi, China & kekeliu @ jgsu. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7822 - 3667
  • 2. College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, Hunan, China & kekeliu @ jgsu. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7822 - 3667 & xux @ hunnu. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9485 - 5373 & yinhaiqiang @ hunnu. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0276 - 2407 & xux @ hunnu. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9485 - 5373
  • 3. College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, Hunan, China & kekeliu @ jgsu. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7822 - 3667 & xux @ hunnu. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9485 - 5373 & yinhaiqiang @ hunnu. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0276 - 2407

Description

Genus Grandilithus Liu & Li, 2022

Type species. Grandilithus anyuan Liu & Li, 2022

Comments. This genus includes 28 species recorded from China (28 records) and Japan (2 records), mainly from Jiangxi, Fujian, Hunan, Hainan, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and Taiwan regions (Liu et al. 2022); five species are known only from males and six are known only from females. However, the species of Otacilia pinglong Liang, Li, Yin, Li & Xu, 2021 and O. pseudofabiformis Liang, Li, Yin, Li & Xu, 2021 are only known from the female, and their unknown males may have palpal modifications like palpal femur with a strong, gloveshaped ventral extension on the subdistal part, the tegulum with only one apophysis and the thin embolus curved into a semicircle.

Notes

Published as part of Liu, Keke, Xu, Xiang & Yin, Haiqiang, 2023, A survey of the Phrurolithidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of Damingshan National Natural Reserve, south China, pp. 511-536 in Zootaxa 5278 (3) on page 512, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5278.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/7906649

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Liu & Li
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Phrurolithidae
Genus
Grandilithus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Grandilithus Liu, 2022 sec. Liu, Xu & Yin, 2023

References

  • Liu, K. K., Li, S. Q., Zhang, X. Q., Ying, Y. H., Meng, Z. Y., Fei, M. H., Li, W. H., Xiao, Y. H. & Xu, X. (2022) Unknown species from China: the case of phrurolithid spiders (Araneae, Phrurolithidae). Zoological Research, 43 (3), Supplements 1 & 2. 352 - 355, 1 - 5 & 1 - 223. https: // doi. org / 10.24272 / j. issn. 2095 - 8137.2022.055
  • Liang, Y., Li, Q., Yin, H. Q., Li, H. & Xu, X. (2021) Two new species of the genus Otacilia from southern China (Araneae, Phrurolithidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica, 30 (2), 99 - 105. https: // doi. org / 10.3969 / j. issn. 1005 - 9628.2021.02.04