[Arachnida • 2025] Yuelushannus danxia • A New Species of Spider in the Genus Yuelushannus (Araneae: Linyphiidae) from Guangdong, China

 

 Yuelushannus danxia  He and Guo,

in He, Chen, Zhu et Guo, 2025.

丹霞岳麓山蛛  ||  DOI: doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2025.2490065

Abstract

A new species of the genus Yuelushannus Irfan, Zhou, Bashir, Mukhtar and Peng, 2020 is described here from Danxia Mountain National Nature Reserve, Guangdong, China: Y. danxia He and Guo, sp. nov. Detailed descriptions, photographs of copulatory organs and somatic features, and a distribution map are provided.

 

Keywords: Biodiversity, description, morphology, sheet-web spiders, taxonomy

Family Linyphiidae Blackwall 1859

Subfamily Erigoninae Emerton, 1882

Genus Yuelushannus Irfan et al., 2020 

Type Yuelushannus barbatus Irfan et al. Citation2020 from Hunan, China; gender masculine.

Genus Yuelushannus comprises five species distributed in Hubei and Hunan Provinces, China (World Spider Catalog, 2024).

 Yuelushannus danxia sp. nov., male, holotype (a–c) and female paratype (d–f). (a, d). Habitus, dorsal view. (b, e). Habitus, lateral view. (c, e). Habitus, ventral view. Scale bars: 0.5 mm.

Yuelushannus danxia He and Guo, sp. nov. 

(丹霞岳麓山蛛)

 

A.L. He, F. Chen, J.H. Zhu and J. Guo. 2025. A New Species of Spider in the Genus Yuelushannus (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from Guangdong, China. The European Zoological Journal. 92(1); 528-534. DOI: doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2025.2490065 [20 May 2025]