Abstract
We report three new species of the segmented trapdoor spider genus Qiongthela Xu & Kuntner, 2015 collected from Hainan Island, China based on morphological characters: Q. dongfangsp. nov. (♂♀), Q. nankaisp. nov. (♂♀), Q. yalinsp. nov. (♂♀). We also provide the GenBank accession codes of the DNA barcode gene, cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI), of the type specimens of all three new species to aid future identification.
Highlights
The segmented trapdoor spider genus Qiongthela Xu & Kuntner, 2015 is currently distributed in Hainan Island (China) and southern Vietnam (Xu et al 2015a, b; World Spider Catalog 2020; Fig. 1)
We describe these new species based on genital morphology of both males and females
We provide the genetic distances of intraspecific and interspecific relationships with the closest species based on the DNA barcode gene, cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI), to support our descriptions, and provide the COI sequences of type specimens for future identifications
Summary
The segmented trapdoor spider genus Qiongthela Xu & Kuntner, 2015 is currently distributed in Hainan Island (China) and southern Vietnam (Xu et al 2015a, b; World Spider Catalog 2020; Fig. 1).
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