Description of three new species of genus Vacrothele (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Macrothelidae) from China with notes on two taxonomic amendments
Three new species of the genus Vacrothele Tang & Yang, 2022 are described in detail from China: Vacrothele fuyuanensis sp. nov., Vacrothele jiangkouensis sp. nov. and Vacrothele baiseensis sp. nov. Two described species of the Macrothele are transferred to the genus, i.e., Vacrothele emei (Lin & Li, 2021) comb. nov. and Vacrothele taiwanensis (Shimojana & Haupt, 1998) comb. nov. A key to species of Vacrothele and a geographic distribution map are given.
Authors
- Yulin Zheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6554-1137)
- Zizhong Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2143-8226)
- Yu Zhao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8607-8500)
Institutions
- Dali University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- European Journal of Taxonomy
- Published
- 2025-02-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.976.2779
- Primary Topic
- Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China