Revision of the genus Scopoides Platnick, 1989 from China, with description of a new genus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)

Bo Liu; Feng Zhang

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1172.105034

Revision of the genus Scopoides Platnick, 1989 from China, with description of a new genus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)

Zookeys. 2023 Jul 26:1172:203-215. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1172.105034. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Bo Liu¹, Feng Zhang¹

Affiliation

¹ The Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application, Institute of Life Science and Green Development, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, China Hebei University Baoding China.

Abstract

The genus Scopoides Platnick, 1989 from China is revised. A new genus, Platnickusgen. nov., is established with the type species Scopoidesxizangensis Hu, 2001, and a new species is described, Platnickusrenisp. nov. Three new combinations are proposed: Allozelotesgyirongensis (Hu, 2001), comb. nov., Platnickuswanglangensis (Yuan, Zhao & Zhang, 2019), comb. nov., and Platnickusxizangensis (Hu, 2001), comb. nov.

Keywords: Ground spider; morphology; new combination; new species; taxonomy.

Bo Liu, Feng Zhang.