Three new species of the genus Falcileptoneta Komatsu, 1970 (Araneae, Leptonetidae) from Korea

Mingjie Xu; Seung Tae Kim; Jung Sun Yoo; Eun Jung Nam; Shuqiang Li

doi:10.3897/zookeys.872.34594

Three new species of the genus Falcileptoneta Komatsu, 1970 (Araneae, Leptonetidae) from Korea

Zookeys. 2019 Aug 20:872:1-12. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.872.34594. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Mingjie Xu^{1

2}, Seung Tae Kim³, Jung Sun Yoo⁴, Eun Jung Nam⁴, Shuqiang Li²

Affiliations

¹ Hebei Key Laboratory of Animal Diversity, College of Life Science, Langfang Normal University, Langfang 065000, China Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China.
² Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China Langfang Normal University Langfang China.
³ Life and Environment Research Institute, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Korea Konkuk University Seoul South Korea.
⁴ Division of Animal Resources, National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon 22689, Korea Division of Animal Resources, National Institute of Biological Resources Incheon South Korea.

Abstract

Three new species of the genus Falcileptoneta Komatsu, 1970 belonging to the spider family Leptonetidae Simon 1890 are described from Korea. All species were collected from wet leaf litter layers.

Keywords: Diagnosis; morphology; new species; taxonomy.