A new species of the tarantula genus Haplocosmia (Araneae, Theraphosidae) from Tibet, China

Ye-Jie Lin; Xunyou Yan; Shuqiang Li

doi:10.3897/BDJ.10.e82682

A new species of the tarantula genus Haplocosmia (Araneae, Theraphosidae) from Tibet, China

Biodivers Data J. 2022 Mar 23:10:e82682. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.10.e82682. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Ye-Jie Lin¹, Xunyou Yan¹, Shuqiang Li²

Affiliations

¹ Hebei Key Laboratory of Animal Diversity, College of Life Science, Langfang, China Hebei Key Laboratory of Animal Diversity, College of Life Science Langfang China.
² Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of sciences, Beijing, China Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of sciences Beijing China.

Abstract

Background: Haplocosmia Schmidt & von Wirth, 1996 is a small genus distributed in the Himalayas that includes two species. This genus has not been found in China (Li et al. 2021, Yao et al. 2021, Zhao et al. 2022).

New information: A new species of the genus Haplocosmia is described from China: Haplocosmiasherwoodae sp. n. from Tibet. Photos and a morphological description of the new species are given. The type specimen of the new species is deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing (IZCAS).

Keywords: Asia; diagnosis; taxonomy; type.

Ye-Jie Lin, Xunyou Yan, Shuqiang Li.