Yang Lan, Yao Zhiyuan, Irfan Muhammad, He Qiaoqiao
College of Life Science, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang, China College of Life Science, Shenyang Normal University Shenyang China.
School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, China School of Life Sciences, Southwest University Chongqing China.
Biodivers Data J. 2023 May 29;11:e105488. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.11.e105488. eCollection 2023.
The genus Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996 was proposed by Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996 to accommodate three - species distributed in northern Eurasia. Male are easlily recognised by having a hood-shaped thumb on the embolus. The females have a long, S-shaped scape and the posterior median plate of the epigyne is grossly enlarged ("hypertrophied").
While examining Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859 specimens from Yunxia Cave in China's Jilin Province, we discovered a new cave-dwelling species of the genus , In this paper, we provide detailed description and photos of its diagnostic somatic and genitalic features. It is the first record of the genus from China.