Three new species of the primitively segmented spider genus Songthela (Araneae, Mesothelae) from Guizhou Province, China.
Zhaoyang ChenDengqing LiDaiqin LiXin XuPublished in: ZooKeys (2021)
We diagnose and describe three new species of the primitively segmented spider genus Songthela from Guizhou Province, China, based on morphological characters and molecular data: S. liui sp. nov. (♂♀), S. tianzhu sp. nov. (♂♀), and S. yuping sp. nov. (♂♀). We provide the genetic distances within and among the three new species based on the DNA barcode gene, cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) to support our descriptions. We also provide the COI GenBank accession codes for the three new species for future identification.