Taxonomic notes of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) from Guangxi, Hainan, Sichuan, Xizang and Yunnan, China

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Keywords: Morphology · Topics: Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies, Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy, Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny

Twenty-one new species of jumping spiders from five provinces of South China are described: Cheliceroides jinxini sp. nov. (♂), Dendroicius qiong sp. nov. (♂♀), Icius deergong sp. nov. (♂♀), Irura qiuhangi sp. nov. (♂♀), I. yarlungzangbo sp. nov. (♂♀), Mintonia shiwandashan sp. nov. (♂), Myrmarachne kuan sp. nov. (♂♀), Nandicius xiefengi sp. nov. (♂♀), Pancorius medog sp. nov. (♀), P. yingjiang sp. nov. (♂♀), Piranthus maddisoni sp. nov. (♂♀), Simaetha hainan sp. nov. (♂♀), Stertinius lhoba sp. nov. (♂♀), Synagelides kongmingi sp. nov. (♂♀), S. xuandei sp. nov. (♂♀), S. yunchangi sp. nov. (♂♀), S. yidei sp. nov. (♂), S. zilongi sp. nov. (♂♀), Yaginumaella daweishan sp. nov. (♂♀), Y. moinba sp. nov. (♂♀), and Y. pingbian sp. nov. (♂♀). Nepalicius Prószyński, 2016, syn. nov. is proposed as a junior synonym of Okinawicius Prószyński, 2016. Three new combinations are proposed: O. nepalicus (Andreeva, Hęciak & Prószyński, 1984), comb. nov. and O. seychellensis (Wanless, 1984), comb. nov. transferred from Nepalicius, and O. daoxianensis (Peng, Gong & Kim, 2000), comb. nov. transferred from Philaeus Thorell, 1869. The unknown females of O. nepalicus, Padillothorax exilis (Cao & Li, 2016) and Siler hanoicus Prószyński, 1985 are described for the first time. Distribution maps of the studied specimens are also provided.

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