Abstract
BackgroundYongxing Island (about 1.85 km2) isthe largest island of the Xisha Islands. It is located in the Western South China Sea and belongs to the tropical ocean monsoon climate zone. Yongxing Island is quite rich in biological resources, for example, plants and birds which have been well documented. However, there are limited reports on spider resources in Yongxing Island.New informationA preliminary checklist of spiders of the Yongxing Island is provided, based on a short-term study undertaken in January 2008. A total of 23 species, belonging to 21 genera and 11 families, were recorded from the area, which forms baseline information of spiders of the Yongxing Island. Amongst these, Oonopidae, Pholcidae, Araneidae and Salticidae were found to have more species in the area. Brignolia parumpunctata (Simon, 1893), Opopaea apicalis (Simon, 1893), Opopaea deserticola Simon, 1891 and Xyphinus baehrae Kranz-Baltensperger, 2014 were firstly reported from China, for which we provide taxonomic description in this paper.
Highlights
Yongxing Island (Fig. 1), known as Woody Island of the Paracel Islands and originating from coral reef, is the largest island of the Xisha Islands (Ye 1996)
A preliminary checklist of spiders of the Yongxing Island is provided, based on a short-term study undertaken in January 2008
Brignolia parumpunctata (Simon, 1893), Opopaea apicalis (Simon, 1893), Opopaea deserticola Simon, 1891 and Xyphinus baehrae KranzBaltensperger, 2014 were firstly reported from China, for which we provide taxonomic description in this paper
Summary
Yongxing Island (about 1.85 km2) is the largest island of the Xisha Islands. It is located in the Western South China Sea and belongs to the tropical ocean monsoon climate zone. There are limited reports on spider resources in Yongxing Island. A preliminary checklist of spiders of the Yongxing Island is provided, based on a short-term study undertaken in January 2008. A total of 23 species, belonging to 21 genera and 11 families, were recorded from the area, which forms baseline information of spiders of the Yongxing Island. Apicalis (Simon, 1893), Opopaea deserticola Simon, 1891 and Xyphinus baehrae KranzBaltensperger, 2014 were firstly reported from China, for which we provide taxonomic description in this paper
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