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Corresponding author: Shuqiang Li ( lisq@ioz.ac.cn ) Corresponding author: Dinh-Sac Pham ( phamdinhsac@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Zhiyuan Yao
© 2023 Xiaoqi Mi, Shuqiang Li, Dinh-Sac Pham.
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Mi X, Li S, Pham D-S (2023) On five new species of the genera Araneus and Hypsosinga (Araneae, Araneidae) from Vietnam. ZooKeys 1161: 69-87. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1161.102375
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Five new species of the spider family Araneidae Clerck, 1757 from Vietnam are described: Araneus eugenei sp. nov. (♂♀), A. ethani sp. nov. (♀), A. liami sp. nov. (♂♀), Hypsosinga ryani sp. nov. (♂♀), and H. zioni sp. nov. (♀). Diagnostic photographs of the habitus and copulatory organs are provided. Types of the new species are deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IZCAS) in Beijing, China.
Arachnida, biodiversity, diagnosis, morphology, taxonomy
A comprehensive checklist of spiders from Vietnam was first compiled by
The goal of this paper is to describe five new species collected in three national parks (Cuc Phuong, Cat Ba, and Tam Dao national parks) in northern Vietnam.
All specimens were collected by canopy fogging, leaf-litter sieving, or hand collecting and are preserved in 75% ethanol. Type specimens of new species are deposited in the
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (
All measurements are given in millimeters. Leg measurements are given as total length (femur, patella + tibia, metatarsus, tarsus). Abbreviations used in the text and figures are as follows: ALE anterior lateral eye; AME anterior median eye; C conductor; CD copulatory duct; CO copulatory opening; E embolus; FD fertilization duct; MA median apophysis; MOA median ocular area; PLE posterior lateral eye; PME posterior median eye; Sc scape; Sp spermatheca; TA terminal apophysis.
Araneus angulatus Clerck, 1757.
Although the three new Araneus species in this paper differ greatly from the type species A. angulatus in both somatic and copulatory organs, they are placed in Araneus provisionally until a phylogenetic analysis is conducted. The three new species, along with A. bidentatus Mi & Li, 2022, A. bidentatoides Mi & Li, 2022, and A. semiorbiculatus Mi & Li, 2022, show some common somatic characters, such as a more or less dark brown carapace, eyes with black bases, an abdomen that is longer than wide, a female abdomen with at least a pair of low humps; these characters indicate these species must be closely related, although their copulatory organs differ.
Holotype
♂ (
The species name is a boy’s name from Vietnam; noun (name) in genitive case.
The female of the new species resembles that of A. ethani sp. nov. in appearance, but it can be distinguished in having 1) a triangular scape (Fig.
Araneus eugenei sp. nov. A–G female paratype
Male (holotype, Figs
Palp
(Fig.
Female (paratype
Epigyne
(Fig.
Total length: ♂♂ 3.60–3.85; ♀♀ 4.25–4.75.
Vietnam (Vinh Phuc, Ninh Binh and Hai Phong Provinces).
Holotype
♀ (
The species name is a boy’s name from Vietnam; noun (name) in genitive case.
The new species resembles A. eugenei sp. nov. in appearance but differs in having: 1) the scape truncated (Fig.
Female (holotype, Figs
Epigyne
(Fig.
Male. Unknown.
Total length: ♀♀ 3.9–4.3.
Vietnam (Ninh Binh and Hai Phong Provinces).
Holotype
♂ (
The species name is a boy’s name from Vietnam; noun (name) in genitive case.
The new species resembles A. bidentatus Mi & Li, 2022 in appearance, but can be distinguished from it in having: 1) the copulatory openings situated on the anterior surface of the epigyne (Fig.
Araneus liami sp. nov. A–F female paratype
Male (holotype, Figs
Palp
(Fig.
Female (paratype
Epigyne
(Fig.
Total length: ♂♂ 2.70–2.90; ♀♀ 2.90–3.45.
Vietnam (Ninh Binh and Vinh Phuc provinces).
Hyposinga Ausserer, 1871: 823.
Singa sanguinea C.L. Koch, 1844.
The two new Hyposinga species in this paper differ greatly from the type species, H. sanguinea, in their copulatory organs. They are placed in Hyposinga provisionally because they show some common somatic characters, such as small total length, reflective carapace, and abdomen.
Holotype
♂ (
The species name is a boy’s name from Vietnam; noun (name) in genitive case.
The new species resembles H. alboria Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 in appearance, but can be distinguished from the latter in having: 1) the epigyne lacking a septum (Fig.
Male (holotype, Figs
Palp
(Fig.
Female (paratype
Epigyne
(Fig.
Vietnam (Ha Tay and Cao Bang provinces).
Holotype
♀ (
The species name is a boy’s name from Vietnam; noun (name) in genitive case.
The new species resembles the female of H. ryani sp. nov. in appearance, but it can be distinguished from the latter in having: 1) the epigyne with scape (Fig.
Female (holotype, Figs
Epigyne
(Fig.
Male. Unknown.
Total length: ♀♀ 2.60–2.75.
Vietnam (Cao Bang and Ha Giang provinces).
The manuscript benefitted greatly from comments by Zhiyuan Yao (Shenyang, China), Yuri M. Marusik (Magadan, Russia), Mikhail M. Omelko (Vladivostok, Russia), and an anonymous referee. Danni Sherwood (London, UK) and Robert Forsyth (Kamloops, Canada) checked the English. This research was supported by the Science and Technology Project Foundation of Guizhou Province ([2020]1Z014), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC-31660609, 32200369), and the Key Laboratory Project of Guizhou Province ([2020]2003).