Zootaxa https://www.mapress.com/zt <p><strong>Zootaxa</strong> is a mega-journal for zoological taxonomists in the world</p> Mangolia Press en-US Zootaxa 1175-5326 <strong>On the Neotropical spider genus <em>Otoniela</em> Brescovit, 1997 (Araneae: Anyphaenidae, Anyphaeninae), with the description of six new species</strong> https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5383.1.1 <p lang="en-GB" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The genus <em>Otoniela</em> Brescovit, 1997 includes two species, the type species <em>Otoniela</em> <em>adisi</em> Brescovit, 1997, distributed in Peru and Brazil and <em>O. quadrivittata</em> (Simon, 1897), recorded in Venezuela and Argentina. Analyzing 127 individuals permited to expand the records of <em>Otoniela adisi</em> and to describe six additional species: <em>O. lupercioi</em> <strong>sp. nov. </strong>(♂♀), from Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay; <em>O. chica</em> <strong>sp. nov.</strong> (♂♀), <em>O. duovizinhense</em> <strong>sp. nov. </strong>(♂♀), and <em>O. tigre</em> <strong>sp. nov. </strong>(♂♀), from Brazil and Argentina; and <em>O. aparecida</em> <strong>n. sp </strong>(♀) and <em>O. negrinho</em> <strong>sp. nov. </strong>(♂♀)<strong>,</strong> known only from Brazil. As a result, a new emended diagnosis of the genus is presented. Additionally, complementary morphological data of <em>Otoniela adisi</em> are documented. </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> LUIZ FERNANDO M. OLIVEIRA JOSÉ GERALDO G. DE ALVARENGA ANTONIO D. BRESCOVIT Copyright (c) 2023 2023-12-08 2023-12-08 5383 1 1 23 10.11646/zootaxa.5383.1.1 <strong>Three new species of temporary fish parasite, Gnathiid Isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoida) from Kuwait</strong> https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5383.1.2 <p lang="en-GB" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gnathiid isopods (Crustacea) were collected between 2014 and 2022 from various sites in shallow waters of the Kuwait coasts. Three new species of gnathiids are described: <em>Caecognathia alsalmiyah </em><strong>sp. nov.</strong> is characterised by the well-extended, distally pointed with three cusps supraocular lobe and the presence of pylopod with four articles; <em>Elaphognathia alshumaimah</em> <strong>sp. nov. </strong>is distinguished from its congeners by having an elongated, distally curved mandible, with a single pronounced conical internal lobe; <em>Gnathia kuwaitensis</em> <strong>sp. nov.</strong> is easily distinguished from the other species of the genus <em>Gnathia</em> by the conical mediofrontal process, which is slightly sunken and having pronounced superior frontolateral process, with median notch distally.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> VALIALLAH KHALAJI-PIRBALOUTY MANAL ABDULRAHMAN AL-KANDARI Copyright (c) 2023 2023-12-08 2023-12-08 5383 1 24 38 10.11646/zootaxa.5383.1.2 <strong>Review of the genus <em>Echinax</em> Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 from China (Araneae: Corinnidae)</strong> https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5383.1.3 <p lang="en-GB" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The spider genus<em> Echinax</em> Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 is reviewed in China. Two new species, <em>E. breviducta</em><strong> sp. nov. </strong>(♂♀) and <em>E. wuzhishan</em><strong> sp. nov.</strong> (♀), are described and illustrated. The female of <em>E. baisha</em> Lu &amp; Li, 2023 is reported for the first time, and three known species, <em>E. anlongensis</em> Yang, Song &amp; Zhu, 2004, <em>E. oxyopoides</em> (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995) and <em>E. panache</em> Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001, are illustrated.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> LU ZHANG FENG ZHANG Copyright (c) 2023 2023-12-08 2023-12-08 5383 1 39 56 10.11646/zootaxa.5383.1.3 <strong>New Limaiinae (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) from the early Eocene Fur Formation, Denmark, including an unexpected finding of a Mesozoic genus</strong> https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5383.1.4 <p lang="en-GB" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Two species of Limaiinae (Chrysopidae) are described from the early Eocene Fur Formation of Denmark: <em>Mesypochrysa nielseni</em> <strong>sp. nov. </strong>and Limaiinae gen. et sp. A. All forewing character states of <em>M. nielseni</em> <strong>sp. nov. </strong>are similar to those of the widely distributed Mesozoic genus <em>Mes</em>y<em>pochrysa </em>Martynov, 1927, which was formerly known from the Middle Jurassic to mid-Cretaceous. Limaiinae gen. et sp. A is represented by an incomplete forewing. Although it differs from other species known from the formation, we refrained to name it pending a more complete specimen. The relatively high diversity of Limaiinae in the early Eocene of Denmark, with at least by two genera and four or five species is surprising. This diversity in the Fur Formation is nearly equal to that of Nothochrysinae. </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> VLADIMIR N. MAKARKIN EVGENY E. PERKOVSKY Copyright (c) 2023 2023-12-08 2023-12-08 5383 1 57 66 10.11646/zootaxa.5383.1.4 <strong>Rediscovery of the Canary Islands endemic <em>Aphaenogaster hesperia</em> Santschi, 1911 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae)</strong> https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5383.1.5 <p lang="en-GB" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Canary Islands endemic species <em>Aphaenogaster hesperia</em> Santschi, 1911 was described based solely on two workers captured in a north-western coastal area of Tenerife (Canary Islands) in 1902 and 1903. The species has not been recorded in the last 100 years and only information on its type locality is known. This species, belonging to the <em>crocea</em> group, has been recently rediscovered in a new site within a pine forest at 950 m a.s.l. The new area is a very different habitat, revealing a lack of ecological knowledge of the species, which may have caused the species to have remained unnoticed for more than 100 years. Novel distributional and morphological data are provided.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ANTONIO J. PÉREZ-DELGADO DAVID LUGO IRENE SANTOS-PERDOMO EDUARDO JIMÉNEZ-GARCÍA DANIEL SUÁREZ Copyright (c) 2023 2023-12-08 2023-12-08 5383 1 67 74 10.11646/zootaxa.5383.1.5 <strong><em>Glyptothorax heokheei</em>, a new species of catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from the Brahmaputra River drainage, Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India</strong> https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5383.1.6 <p lang="en-GB" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em>Glyptothorax heokheei</em>, a new species of sisorid catfish is described from the Brahmaputra River drainage in India. It can be distinguished from all congeners, except <em>G. dikrongensis</em>, <em>G. indicus</em>, <em>G. rugimentum</em> and <em>G. obliquimaculatus</em>, in having the unculiferous striae of thoracic adhesive apparatus extending anteriorly onto gular region. <em>Glyptothorax heokheei </em>is distinguished from <em>G. dikrongensis </em>and <em>G. obliquimaculatus</em> in having a slender body at the anus, more serrations on posterior margin of pectoral-fin spine, greater number of branched anal fin rays, and the extremity of dorsoposterior margin of adipose fin uniformly convex (vs. sharply angular). It differs from <em>G. rugimentum</em> in having a chevron-shaped (vs. rhomboidal) thoracic adhesive apparatus, more serrations on posterior margin of pectoral-fin spine, and lacking vertical bars on body. <em>Glyptothorax heokheei </em>differs from <em>G. indicus </em>in having a shorter post-adipose distance, smaller interorbital width, more serrations on posterior margin of pectoral-fin spine and nasal barbel not reaching (vs. reaching) anterior margin of eye. <em>Glyptothorax heokheei</em> is the fifth species of the genus<em> </em>possessing unculiferous ridges of thoracic adhesive apparatus extending anteriorly onto the gular region.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> PRATIMA SINGH BASUDHARA ROY CHOWDHURY SHANTABALA DEVI GURUMAYUM LAISHRAM KOSYGIN Copyright (c) 2023 2023-12-08 2023-12-08 5383 1 75 82 10.11646/zootaxa.5383.1.6 <strong>The more, the merrier: a new colonial species of the orb weaving spider genus <em>Leucauge</em> White, 1841 (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) from the Amazon rainforest</strong> https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5383.1.7 <p lang="en-GB" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A new <em>Leucauge</em> species, widespread in the Amazon rainforest, is described and illustrated. <em>Leucauge behemoth</em> <strong>n. sp.</strong> lives in colonies, usually positioned above turbulent waters. Both males and females have a unique color pattern, especially on the abdomen, which makes this species easily identifiable. Males are distinguished from most congeners by the long hook of the cymbium and from their closest relatives by the lack of a cymbial dorsobasal process. Females of this species differ from their congeners by the presence of a rounded ventral process in the epigynum. <em>Leucauge argyroaffins</em> Soares &amp; Camargo, 1948 is proposed as a junior synonym of <em>Leucauge argyra </em>(Walckenaer, 1841). </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> LEONARDO FERREIRA-SOUSA EDUARDO MARTINS VENTICINQUE PAULO CÉSAR MOTTA ANTONIO DOMINGOS BRESCOVIT Copyright (c) 2023 2023-12-08 2023-12-08 5383 1 83 95 10.11646/zootaxa.5383.1.7 <strong>Remarks on the subgenus <em>Xizicus</em> (<em>Paraxizicus</em>) (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae) with description of one new species from China</strong> https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5383.1.8 MENG AN YUNXIANG ZHANG FUMING SHI Copyright (c) 2023 2023-12-08 2023-12-08 5383 1 96 100 10.11646/zootaxa.5383.1.8