Six new species of the genus Opopaea Simon, 1891 from Xishuangbanna Rainforest, southwestern China (Araneae: Oonopidae)

Yanfeng Tong; Shuqiang Li

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3931.1.3

Six new species of the genus Opopaea Simon, 1891 from Xishuangbanna Rainforest, southwestern China (Araneae: Oonopidae)

Zootaxa. 2015 Mar 11;3931(1):41-62. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3931.1.3.

Authors

Yanfeng Tong¹, Shuqiang Li²

Affiliations

¹ Chemistry and Life Science College, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang 110034, China.; Email: tyf68@hotmail.com.
² Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Email: lisq@ioz.ac.cn.

PMID: 25781813
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3931.1.3

Abstract

Seven species of the genus Opopaea Simon, 1891 from Xishuangbanna Rainforest, Yunnan, China are recognized, including six new species: Opopaea auriforma sp. nov. (male, female), Opopaea cornuta Yin & Wang, 1984, Opopaea flabellata sp. nov. (female), Opopaea macula sp. nov. (male, female), Opopaea rigidula sp. nov. (male, female), Opopaea semilunata sp. nov. (female), and Opopaea zhengi sp. nov. (male, female). Morphological descriptions and illustrations of all the six new species are given. All the types are deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing (IZCAS).

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
China
Female
Male
Rainforest
Spiders / anatomy & histology
Spiders / classification*