A survey on poorly known rainforest litter-dwelling spiders of Orchid Island
(Lanyu, Taiwan) with the description of a new species (Araneae: Linyphiidae,
Tetrablemmidae, and Theridiosomatidae).
Ballarin F(1), Yamasaki T, Su YC. Author information:
(1)Systematic Zoology Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo
Metropolitan University, 1-1 Minami-Osawa, Hachioji-shi, 192-0397, Tokyo,
Japan.. [Email]
Representatives of some poorly known spider species collected in the rainforest litter of the Orchid Island (Taiwan) are illustrated and discussed here. A new species, Brignoliella tao sp. nov. (Fam. Tetrablemmidae), endemic to Orchid Island, is described based on both sexes. The previously unknown female of Theridiosoma triumphale Zhao Li, 2012 (Fam. Theridiosomatidae), is described for the first time. Zoma taiwanica (Zhang, Zhu Tso 2006) comb. nov., from the same family, is illustrated and its transfer from the genus Theridiosoma O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879 to Zoma Saaristo, 1996 is proposed on the basis of morphological characters. Habitus and genitalia of the endemic species Gongylidioides angustus Tu Li, 2006 (Fam. Linyphiidae) are also illustrated.
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