Two new species of the genus Trilacuna Tong & Li, 2007 (Araneae, Oonopidae) from the Nangunhe Nature Reserve, Yunnan Province, China

 


Two new species of the genus Trilacuna Tong & Li, 2007 (Araneae, Oonopidae) from the Nangunhe Nature Reserve, Yunnan Province, China

Abstract

Background

The spider genus Trilacuna Tong & Li, 2007, currently comprises 32 species known from China, of which 15 species are from Yunnan and one species, i.e. T. wumanshan Tong, Yang & Zhang, 2023 is recorded from the Nangunhe Nature Reserve, Yunnan.

New information

Two new Trilacuna species, Trilacuna jimengi Dai & Tong, sp. nov. (♂♀) and Trilacuna nangunhe Dai & Tong, sp. nov. (♂♀), are described, based on specimens collected from the Nangunhe Nature Reserve, Yunnan Province. Morphological descriptions and photomicroscopy images of the new species are given.

Dai C, Yang T, Tong Y, Yang Z (2025) Two new species of the genus Trilacuna Tong & Li, 2007 (Araneae, Oonopidae) from the Nangunhe Nature Reserve, Yunnan Province, China. Biodiversity Data Journal 13: e175820. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e175820