Abstract
The Chinese representatives of Raveniola Zonstein, 1987 are currently recognized to comprise seven species. Four new species - R. montana sp. n. (♂♀), R. shangrila sp. n. (♂), R. songi sp. n. (♂) and R. yunnanensis sp. n. (♂) - are described from the highlands of Yunnan Province, China. According to some characters (shape of the palpus, palpal tibia and tibia I in males) they can be placed together with R. hebeinica Zhu, Zhang & Zhang, 1999 and with R. guangxi (Raven & Schwendinger, 1995), comb. n., transferred here from Sinopesa Raven & Schwendinger, 1995. The current generic position of R. xizangensis (Hu & Li, 1987) is confirmed. Other Chinese nemesiids referred previously to Raveniola are transferred to Sinopesa: S. chinensis (Kulczyn ́ski, 1901), comb. n., S. sinensis (Zhu & Mao, 1983), comb. n. and S. chengbuensis (Xu & Yun, 2002), comb. n. The relationships between these Asian genera and their relations to Afrotropical nemesiids are discussed.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 71-99 |
| Number of pages | 29 |
| Journal | ZooKeys |
| Volume | 211 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2012 |
Keywords
- Araneae
- Nemesiidae
- Raveniola
- Sinopesa
- Spiders
- Taxonomy
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