Abstract
ABSTRACT Aegistohadra species identified in recent surveys suggested that the genus shows high diversity and has wide occupancy in southwest China. We introduce five new species of the genus, Aegistohadra chuxiongensis Wu & Ding, sp. nov., A. huzhengkuni Wu & Ding, sp. nov., A. mengziensis Wu & Ding, sp. nov., A. menglunensis Wu & Ding, sp. nov. and A. sheni Wu & Ding, sp. nov. from Sichuan and Yunnan, China. The distribution range of Aegistohadra in China, geographically and by microhabitats, is divided into the northern half for the ground-dwellers and the southern half for the canopy-dwellers. Takasagohadra lini Wu & Hwang, 2013, a living tree trunk-dweller in Guizhou, is redescribed from its type locality and is moved to Aegistohadra on the basis of the morphological, anatomical and molecular data. A phylogeny based on mitochondrial gene fragments (cytochrome c oxidase subunit I and 16S rRNA) reconfirmed that Aegistohadra is monophyletic, which indicates that its basal species might have occupied the microhabitat of the canopy before the living tree trunk – and ground-dwellers – appeared.
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