One more new species of Chaerilobuthus Lourenço & beigel, 2011 (Scorpiones: Chaerilobuthidae) from Early Cretaceous Burmite

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  One more new species of Chaerilobuthus Lourenço & beigel, 2011 (Scorpiones: Chaerilobuthidae) from Early Cretaceous Burmite Abstract . – The genus Chaerilobuthus is probably the most speciose group among those found in Burmite. In some recent publications most aspects concerning the family Chaerilobuthidae Lourenço & Beigel, 2011 and the genera composing it were precisely discussed; consequently, no further comments will be provided in this contribution. Only one more new species belonging to the genus Chaerilobuthus is described. Chaerilobuthus franzschmidti Lourenço sp . n ., represents the 16th species to be described for this genus confirming therefore the strong speciose characteristic of the group. The new species shows some marked morphological differences when compared to the previous known species, attesting the existence of a major variability within Chaerilobuthus . Lourenço W. R. & Velten J., 2026. – Une nouvelle espèce pour le genre Chaerilobuthus Lou...

First record of Hippasa Simon 1885 (Araneae: Lycosidae) from Borneo, with the description of a new species

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First record of Hippasa Simon 1885 (Araneae: Lycosidae) from Borneo, with the description of a new species

Simon (1885) established the wolf spider genus Hippasa Simon, 1885 to accommodate the type species Hippasa agelenoides (Simon, 1884) as well as H. greenalliae (Blackwall, 1867) from India, the latter species currently regarded as a nomen dubium (Sankaran & Caleb 2023). To date, 27 valid species have been described in this genus, distributed across Africa and Asia (World Spider Catalog 2026). While the taxonomy of Hippasa is relatively well-studied among Asian lycosids, with recent regional revisions from China and India (Wang et al. 2015; Sankaran & Caleb 2023; Wang et al. 2026), its diversity in Southeast Asia remains incompletely documented and geographically scattered, particularly within the Sunda Shelf region. In Southeast Asia, confirmed records of Hippasa occur in Laos, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam (Thorell 1895; Barrion 1981; Wang et al. 2015; Omelko & Marusik 2020; Wang et al. 2026). An unconfirmed record of H. holmerae from East Java, Indonesia (Trisnawati et al. 2023) requires verification; consequently, the genus currently lacks confirmed records from Indonesia. The present paper represents the first confirmed record of Hippasa from both Indonesia and Borneo and includes the description of H. kalamanthana sp. nov.

Dhiya'ulhaq, NU & Rahmadi, C. (2026) First record of Hippasa Simon 1885 (Araneae: Lycosidae) from Borneo, with the description of a new species. Zootaxa , 5869 (2), 386–392. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5869.2.16