Vol. 48 No. 5, 2009

New Cave-Dwelling Coelotine Spiders from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, China (Araneae: Amaurobiidae)

Jie Liu and Shu-Qiang Li*

Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

Jie Liu and Shu-Qiang Li (2009) Three new Coelotes species and 4 new Draconarius species from caves of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau of China are described: C. degeneratus sp. nov., C. laohuanglongensis sp. nov., C. uncatus sp. nov., D. cochleariformis sp. nov., D. lini sp. nov., D. parallelus sp. nov., and D. semicircularis sp. nov.  Detailed morphological descriptions and illustrations of all 7 species are given.  The type specimens are deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.

Key words: Coelotinae, Taxonomy, Cave-dwelling, New species, Fauna.

*Correspondence: Fax: 86-10-64807099.  E-mail:lisq@ioz.ac.cn