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Issue: Vol. 5636 No. 3: 19 May 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-05-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5636.3.1
Page range: 401-442
Abstract views: 71
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New species and new combinations of the spider genus Baiyuerius Zhao, B. Li & S. Q. Li, 2023 (Araneae, Agelenidae, Coelotinae)

Hubeiate Key Laboratory of Regional Development and Environmental Response; Faculty of Resources and Environmental Science; Hubei University; Wuhan 430062; China; State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering; The Arachnid Resource Centre of Hubei Province & Centre for Behavioral Ecology & Evolution; School of Life Sciences; Hubei University; Wuhan; Hubei; 430062; China; Wuhan Lvjia Technology Co.; Ltd; Wuhan 430114; Hubei; China
Hubeiate Key Laboratory of Regional Development and Environmental Response; Faculty of Resources and Environmental Science; Hubei University; Wuhan 430062; China; Wuhan Lvjia Technology Co.; Ltd; Wuhan 430114; Hubei; China
Hubeiate Key Laboratory of Regional Development and Environmental Response; Faculty of Resources and Environmental Science; Hubei University; Wuhan 430062; China; State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering; The Arachnid Resource Centre of Hubei Province & Centre for Behavioral Ecology & Evolution; School of Life Sciences; Hubei University; Wuhan; Hubei; 430062; China; School of Nuclear Technology and Chemistry and Biology; Hubei University of Science and Technology; Xianning 437100; Hubei; China
Hubeiate Key Laboratory of Regional Development and Environmental Response; Faculty of Resources and Environmental Science; Hubei University; Wuhan 430062; China
Hubeiate Key Laboratory of Regional Development and Environmental Response; Faculty of Resources and Environmental Science; Hubei University; Wuhan 430062; China
Araneae biodiversity coelotine spiders morphology taxonomy

Abstract

The spider genus Baiyuerius established by Zhao, B. Li & S. Q. Li, 2023 contains 10 species distributed in China and Vietnam. In this paper, twelve new species of the genus Baiyuerius are described from China: B. arcticus sp. nov. (♂), B. carcharus sp. nov. (♂♀), B. chongzu sp. nov. (♂♀), B. cuii sp. nov. (♂), B. digitus sp. nov. (♂), B. fengbini sp. nov. (♀), B. jiquanyui sp. nov. (♂), B. imitatus sp. nov. (♀), B. loong sp. nov. (♂♀), B. shaanensis sp. nov. (♀), B. shenyunxiaoi sp. nov. (♀) and B. wenshanensis sp. nov. (♀). The male of Baiyuerius daxi Zhao, B. Li & S. Li, 2023 is described for the first time. Additionally, we transfer one previously described Coelotes Blackwall, 1841 species and one Draconarius Ovtchinnikov, 1999 species: C. processus Xu & Li, 2007 and D. subyanlingensis (Liu & Xu, 2020) to Baiyuerius. All 24 Baiyuerius species are divided into five morphological species groups.

 

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How to Cite

Wei, M., Zhu, Y., Liu, J., Zhang, H. & Liu, F. (2025) New species and new combinations of the spider genus Baiyuerius Zhao, B. Li & S. Q. Li, 2023 (Araneae, Agelenidae, Coelotinae). Zootaxa, 5636 (3), 401–442. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5636.3.1