Two new species of the primitively segmented spider genus Liphistius Schiödte, 1849 (Mesothelae, Liphistiidae) from Myanmar

Khin Pyae Pyae Aung; Xin Xu; Wai Wai Lwin; Men Zing Sang; Long Yu; Hao Liu; Fengxiang Liu; Daiqin Li

doi:10.3897/zookeys.882.38811

Two new species of the primitively segmented spider genus Liphistius Schiödte, 1849 (Mesothelae, Liphistiidae) from Myanmar

Zookeys. 2019 Oct 23:882:29-39. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.882.38811. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Khin Pyae Pyae Aung^{1

2}, Xin Xu^{3

4}, Wai Wai Lwin¹, Men Zing Sang¹, Long Yu⁴, Hao Liu⁴, Fengxiang Liu⁴, Daiqin Li⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Zoology, University of Yangon, Kamayut Township, Pyay Road, Yangon, 11041, Myanmar.
² Department of Biology, Taungoo Education College, Taungoo, 08101, Myanmar.
³ College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, 36 Lushan Road, Changsha 410081, Hunan Province, China.
⁴ State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, and Centre for Behavioural Ecology and Evolution (CBEE), School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, 368 Youyi Road, Wuhan 430062, Hubei Province, China.
⁵ Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 14 Science Drive 4, 117543, Singapore.

Abstract

Two Liphistius species of the primitively segmented spider family Liphistiidae, collected from Loikaw (Kayah State) and Pinlaung (Shan State), Myanmar, are diagnosed and described as new to science based on their genital morphology: Liphistius hpruso sp. nov. (♀), Liphistius pinlaung sp. nov. (♂♀).

Keywords: Liphistius; Myanmar; taxonomy; trapdoor spiders.

Khin Pyae Pyae Aung, Xin Xu, Wai Wai Lwin, Men Zing Sang, Long Yu, Hao Liu, Fengxiang Liu, Daiqin Li.

Grants and funding

the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China (NSFC) (31272324; 31601850), the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (2017JJ3202), the Singapore Ministry of Education AcRF Tier 1 grant (R-154-000-A52-114), ASEAN University Network funding, and Special PhD Program on Zoology from Hubei University