ZooKeys (Mar 2023)

Three new species of the primitively segmented spider genus Songthela (Mesothelae, Liphistiidae, Heptathelinae) from Hunan Province, China

  • Yan Zhang,
  • Zhaoyang Chen,
  • Daiqin Li,
  • Xin Xu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1154.98273
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1154
pp. 17 – 31

Abstract

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Three new species of the primitively segmented spider genus Songthela Ono, 2000 are identified and described from Hunan Province, China, based on morphological characters of males and females: S. anhua Zhang & Xu, sp. nov. (♂♀), S. longhui Zhang & Xu, sp. nov. (♂♀), and S. zhongpo Zhang & Xu, sp. nov. (♂♀). All the new Songthela species belong to the multidentata-group according to male palp and female genital morphology.