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| Liphistius liz Lin & Li, 2023 |
Abstract
Background: The spider genus Liphistius Schiødte, 1849 contains 69 species, endemic to Indochina and Southeast Asia. Only one species is currently known from the Chinese province of Yunnan: Liphistius nabang Yu, Zhang & Zhang, 2021.
New information: A new species, Liphistius liz Lin & Li, sp. nov., is described from Yunnan, China, on the basis of both sexes. Photos and a morphological description of the new species are provided.
Keywords: diagnosis, Asia, spider, type
Liphistius liz Lin & Li, 2023 sp. nov.
Etymology: The specific name refers to the short name for the Laboratory of Invertebrate Zoology (LIZ), Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing; noun in apposition. LIZ was founded by Shen Jia-Rui (see Dai (1997)) in 1928, later led by Daxiang Song (see Marusik (2008)) from 1975 to 1995 and has been led by the senior author Shuqiang Li from 1995 to the present.
Yejie Lin and Shuqiang Li. 2023. A New Species of Liphistius Schiødte, 1849 (Araneae, Liphistiidae) from Yunnan, China. Biodiversity Data Journal. 11: e113290. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.11.e113290
