New Species Of The Spider Genus Leptonetela In Caves(Araneae: Leptonetidae)

The present dissertation deals with the taxonomy of Haplogyne spiders(Araneae: Leptonetidae) in caves from China and Greece. Up to now, the family Leptonetidae contains 23 genera and 276 species, Leptonetela contains 53 species. But the taxomomy status of Leptonetidae has been a long controversial problem, because of the complicated fauna of Leptonetidae.40 new species of the family Leptonetidae occurring in caves from China are described, including L. changtu sp. nov., L. chenjia sp. nov., L. chuan sp. nov., L. dabian sp. nov., L. dao sp. nov., L. dashui sp. nov., L. feilong sp. nov., L. gang sp. nov., L. ganxi sp. nov., L. gubin sp. nov., L. kangsa sp. nov., L. la sp. nov., L. liangfeng sp. nov., L. liuguan sp. nov., L. lujia sp. nov., L. mawan sp. nov., L mayang sp. nov., L. niubizi sp. nov., L. panbao sp. nov., L. qiangdao sp. nov., L. sanyan sp. nov., L. shanji sp. nov., L. shenxian sp. nov., L. shuang sp. nov., L. wangjia sp. nov., L. wenzhu sp. nov. and L. wuming sp. nov., from Guizhou; L. longyu sp. nov. from Hunan; L. encun sp. nov., L. jiahe sp. nov., L. lihu sp. nov., L. liuzhai sp. nov., L. longli sp. nov., L. rudong sp. nov. and L. shuilian sp. nov. from Guangxi; L. lianhua sp. nov. from Jiangxi; L. huoyan sp. nov., L. xianren sp. nov. and L. xianwu sp. nov. from Hubei; L. chakou sp. nov. from Sichuan. The female of L. zhai Wang & Li, 2011 is described first time. In addition, 3 species of spider family Leptonetidae collected from Greece, that is, L. arvanitidisi Wang & Li, 2016, L. paragamiani Wang & Li, 2016 and L. penevi Wang & Li, 2016.The paper reported the results of a detailed study of 44 species and provided 87 plates, with 304 photos of diagnosis characters, 2 pictures of geography data.