Asianopis Lin & Li 2020

Genus Asianopis Lin & Li, 2020 Type species. Asianopis zhuanghaoyuni Lin & Li, 2020, from China (Fujian Province). Notes. When describing the genus, Lin et al. (2020b) initially divided all Asian species into two groups: the liukuensis -group containing two species (A. dumogae (Merian, 1911) and A. liukuensis), and the zhuanghaoyuni - group comprising five species (A. celebensis (Merian, 1911), A. konplong (Logunov, 2018), A. wangi Lin & Li, 2020, A. wuchaoi Lin & Li, 2020, and A. zhuanghaoyuni Lin & Li, 2020). Later, another species, A. goalparaensis (Tikader & Malhotra, 1978), from India and Nepal was added to the liukuensis -group (Basumatary et al. 2020), while A. gorochovi Fomichev & Omelko, 2023, from Sumatra, was added to the zhuanghaoyuni -group (Fomichev et Omelko 2023). Several Asian species remain unassigned to either of these known groups. Asianopis aruensis (Roewer, 1938) from Indonesia exhibits features of both groups (“epigyne with an anchor-shaped median plate, distinct copulatory openings, and a copulatory duct with 10 coils”); therefore, Lin et al. (2020a) did not assign it to any group. Two more species, A. fasciculiger and A. kollari, whose copulatory organs are not illustrated, cannot be assigned to any group until they are redescribed. Additionally, two species from the Philippines, A. labangan (Barrion-Dupo & Barrion, 2018) and A. luzonensis (Barrion-Dupo & Barrion, 2018), known only from schematic black-and-white illustrations of habitus and copulatory organs, also cannot be reliably assigned to existing species groups (see also notes section for A. naumenkoi sp. nov.). Chamberland et al. (2022) transferred twenty non-Asian species (from Africa, the New World, New Guinea, and Australia) from Deinopis to Asianopis, without assigning them to any existing species groups. All Asian species of Asianopis, except A. liukuensis, are local endemics and known mostly from single records. Asianopis liukuensis is the only species with a wide distribution, ranging from India to Borneo (WSC 2024 and new data).