A new species of the Clubiona corticalis-group (Araneae, Clubionidae) from Jiugong Mountains, Hubei Province, central China

Abstract

The corticalis group is one of most diverse species-group in genus Clubiona Latreille, 1804. Currently, a total of 81 corticalis group species are known worldwide, amongst them 67 were recorded from China. However, the diversity of this group in China is still insufficiently known. Clubiona xianningsp. nov. is described as a new species of the C. corticalis species-group collected from Hubei Province, China.

Three new species of the Clubiona corticalis group (Araneae, Clubionidae) from China

“…The Clubiona corticalis group, first recognised by Simon (1932) , has recently been one of the most frequently reported species groups of the family ( Marusik and Omelko 2018 ; Zhang et al 2021 ; Zhong et al 2022 ). In China, at least 51 species of the Clubiona corticalis group have been recorded to date, and these are mainly distributed in south China (Table 1 ).…”