A review of the genus Raveniola (Araneae, Nemesiidae) in China, with notes on allied genera and description of four new species from Yunnan

作者：Zonstein Sergei^*; Marusik Yuri M

来源：ZooKeys, 2012, (211): 71-99.

DOI：10.3897/zookeys.211.3060

• Araneae
• spiders
• taxonomy
• Nemesiidae
• Raveniola
• Sinopesa

The Chinese representatives of Raveniola Zonstein, 1987 are currently recognized to comprise seven species. Four new species - R. montana sp. n. (male female), R. shangrila sp. n. (male), R. songi sp. n. (male) and R. yun-nanensis sp. n. (male) - are described from the highlands of Yunnan Province, China. According to some characters (shape of the palpus, palpal tibia and tibia I in males) they can be placed together with R. hebeinica Zhu, Zhang %26 Zhang, 1999 and with R. guangxi (Raven %26 Schwendinger, 1995), comb. n., transferred here from Sinopesa Raven %26 Schwendinger, 1995. The current generic position of R. xizangen-sis (Hu %26 Li, 1987) is confirmed. Other Chinese nemesiids referred previously to Raveniola are transferred to Sinopesa: S. chinensis (Kulczynski, 1901), comb. n., S. sinensis (Zhu %26 Mao, 1983), comb. n. and S. chengbuensis (Xu %26 Yun, 2002), comb. n. The relationships between these Asian genera and their relations to Afrotropical nemesiids are discussed.

• 出版日期2012