A remarkable new species of the genus Chilobrachys Karsch, 1892(Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Yunnan, China

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  A remarkable new species of the genus Chilobrachys Karsch, 1892(Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Yunnan, China Abstract A new spider species of the genus Chilobrachys Karsch, 1892 of the family Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869is described from Yunnan, China: C. sherwoodae Lin & Li, sp. nov. based on both sexes. Photos and amorphological description of the new species are given. The type specimens are deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IZCAS) in Beijing, China. Etymology:  The species is named after Miss Danni Sherwood, who kindly provided photographs of the types of other Indochina Chilobrachys, which enabled us to recognise the new species; noun (name) ingenitive case. Acknowledgements:  Ming Liang (China, Kunming) and Pengkai Ouyang (China, Kunming) helped in fieldwork. Danni Sherwood polished the English.

Reclassification of Coelotes songae (Araneae: Agelenidae: Coelotinae) with description of its unknown female confirmed by morphology and DNA barcoding

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Reclassification of Coelotes songae (Araneae: Agelenidae: Coelotinae) with description of its unknown female confirmed by morphology and DNA barcoding

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The genus Sinocoelotes Zhao & Li, 2016 is recorded from Vietnam for the first time based on the reclassification of Coelotes songae Liu, Li & Pham, 2010 as Sinocoelotes songae (Liu, Li & Pham, 2010) comb. nov. The previously unknown female is described for the first time from type locality, as confirmed through DNA barcoding and morphological analysis.

Hoang, Q.D., Truong, B.P. & Tran, T.T.T. (2025) Reclassification of Coelotes songae (Araneae: Agelenidae: Coelotinae) with description of its unknown female confirmed by morphology and DNA barcoding. Zootaxa, 5673 (1), 143–150. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5673.1.10