Zoosystematics and Evolution (Mar 2024)

Four new species and one newly-recorded species of the genus Opopaea Simon, 1892 (Araneae, Oonopidae) from southern China, with a key to Chinese species

  • Yang Zhou,
  • Dongju Bian,
  • Zizhong Yang,
  • Zhisheng Zhang,
  • Yanfeng Tong,
  • Shuqiang Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.100.120305
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 100, no. 2
pp. 325 – 347

Abstract

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Five species of the genus Opopaea Simon, 1892 from southern China are recognised, including four new species: Opopaea mangun Tong & Li, sp. nov., Opopaea taibao Tong & Yang, sp. nov., Opopaea wenshan Tong & Zhang, sp. nov. and Opopaea yuhuang Tong & Li, sp. nov. from Yunnan and one newly-recorded species: Opopaea foveolata Roewer, 1963 from Hainan. Detailed diagnoses, descriptions and photomicroscopy images of new species are provided, based on specimens of both sexes. A key to species of the genus Opopaea from China is provided.