State Key Laboratory of Developmental Biology of Freshwater Fish, The National Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of Animal Peptide Drug Development, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, Hunan, China .
Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, DC 20052, USA .
Zootaxa. 2021 Aug 11;5020(1):1-30. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5020.1.1.
Five new species of mimetid spiders from China are described: Mimetus subulatus n. sp., M. clavatus n. sp., M. dentatus n. sp., M. niveosignatus n. sp. and M. uncatus n. sp. The phylogenetic placement of these new species is inferred based on a cladistic analysis of an expanded version of the morphological dataset of Benavides and Hormiga (2020). The new species form a clade that can be distinguished from other Mimetus species by the presence of a subtegular apophysis between paracymbium and subtegulum, pilose cuticular projections on the membranous part of the conductor in the male palp and by a bicameral structure of the spermathecae in females. The new species are part of a clade that includes Mimetus syllepsicus Hentz, 1832, the type species of the genus. The genus Mimetus as currently circumscribed is not monophyletic, as the clade that includes all the Mimetus species also includes the genera Australomimetus Heimer, 1986 and Anansi Benavides and Hormiga, 2017, corroborating the results of Benavides and Hormiga (2020).
描述了来自中国的 5 种新拟态蜘蛛：Mimetus subulatus n. sp.、M. clavatus n. sp.、M. dentatus n. sp.、M. niveosignatus n. sp. 和 M. uncatus n. sp.。这些新物种的系统发育位置是基于对 Benavides 和 Hormiga（2020）扩展的形态数据集进行分支分析推断的。新物种形成一个分支，与其他 Mimetus 物种不同，其特征是在副触肢和小盾片之间有一个亚盾突，雄触须的膜状部分有毛状表皮突起，以及雌性的精囊具有双室结构。新物种属于包括 Mimetus syllepsicus Hentz, 1832 在内的一个分支，这是该属的模式种。目前界定的 Mimetus 属不是单系的，因为包括所有 Mimetus 物种的分支也包括 Australomimetus Heimer, 1986 和 Anansi Benavides 和 Hormiga, 2017 属，这与 Benavides 和 Hormiga（2020）的结果一致。
