The first record of the wolf spider subfamily Zoicinae from China (Araneae: Lycosidae), with the description of two new species
Author
Li, Zongxu
Author
Wang, Lu-Yu
Author
Zhang, Zhi-Sheng
text
Zootaxa
2013
3701
1
journal volume
10.11646/zootaxa.3701.1.2
97b1ec91-fb9f-4837-a7fc-410817953c55
1175-5326
248488
48F57948-7C08-40E1-B058-8DF80F153D0A
Genus
Zoica
Simon, 1898
Type
species.
Zoica parvula
Thorell, 1895
.
Diagnosis.
Zoica
appears closely related to
Lysania
(Lehtinen & Hippa 1979; Hippa & Lehtinen 1983) by having the male pedipalp without median apophysis and the distal origin of the embolus (Framenau
et al.
2009). However, the genus can be differentiated by the small body size, the gently sloping cephalic area, uniformly yellow-brown to brown colour and by having shorter and strong stalks of the spermathecae of epigyne.
Distribution.
Bhutan
(Buchar 1997), Borneo,
Thailand
, New
Guinea
(Lehtinen & Hippa 1979),
India
(Tikader & Malhotra 1980; Biswas & Roy 2008),
Myanmar
,
Malaysia
,
Sri Lanka
(Thorell 1895; Simon 1898; Lehtinen 1967; Lehtinen & Hippa 1979), Western
Australia
(McKay 1979), Northern Territory and Queensland (V.W. Framenau personal communications), Pacific region (Framenau
et al.
2009), and here reported from
China
.