Taxonomy Of The Spiders Of The Family Theridiidae From Wuling Mountains

Wuling Mountains located at N:27°10?01??31°28?01?,E:106°55?59??111°49°01?.The present dissertation concentrated on the taxonomic study on the spiders the Family Theridiidae from Wuling Mountains of the Hunan,Hubei,Guizhou and Chongqing.Four parts included.Part ? deals with the introduction to the Family Theridiidae,and its morphology and taxonomy.The introduction of the Wulingshan Area and main collection localities are also provided.Part ? concentrated on the taxonomic study of 153 spider species in 38 genera of the family Theridiidae.The species which were not recorded in Wuling Mountains before are described.Part ? includes conclusions and discussions.The main new findings include:33 new species:Latrodectus calvatus sp.nov.;Neospintharus subnipponicus sp.nov.;Spheropistha suborbita sp.nov.;Coscinida wulingensis sp.nov.;Episinus cymbiformis sp.nov.;E.foliaceus sp.nov.;E.oxycerus sp.noV.;Robertus wulingensis sp.nov.;Stemmops youyangensis sp.nov.;Dipoena angulata sp.nov.;D.lamina sp.nov.;D.lirata sp.nov.;D.lyugadina sp.nov.;D.punctisparsa sp.nov.;Emertonella subtaczanowskii sp.nov.Liu;Euryopis foliaceus sp.nov.;Phyosoma craniforma sp.nov.;Chrosiothes lotus sp.nov;Chrysso albomaculata sp.nov.;C.hamatus sp.nov.;C.lineatipes sp.nov.;C.odontodes sp.nov.;C.serpentina sp.nov.;C.sticta sp.nov.;Meotipa subvesiculosa sp.nov.;Parasteatoda aequipeiforma sp.nov.Gan;P.lemboda sp.nov.;P.mirabila sp.nov.;Takayus nigrus sp.nov.;Theridion angulatum sp.nov.;T.cyclosisum sp.nov;T.lactea sp.nov.;T.leptosiphum sp.nov.2 new combinations:Phycosoma complexa(Gao&Li,2014)comb,nov.;Chrosiothes concave(Yin&Xu,2012)comb.nov.4 single supplemental species:Episinus longabdomenus Zhu,1998;Phoroncidia crustula Zhu,1998;Chrosiothes concave(Yin&Xu,2012);Moneta tumulicola Zhu,1998.Taxonomy of some genera and species are discussed.Finally,part IV supplied 240 color photos and 99 point plots inked on inkjet plotter paper for all new species and the species which were not recorded in Fauna Hunan:Araneae in Hunan,China.