Challenging Wallacean and Linnean shortfalls: <i>Ectatosticta</i> spiders (Araneae, Hypochilidae) from China
Jiang‐Ni Li, 廊坊师范学院生命科学院, 河北 廊坊065000, 中国, Xunyou Yan, Yejie Lin, Shuqiang Li, Haifeng Chen, 中国科学院动物研究所, 北京 100101, 中国
Abstract
<i>Ectatosticta</i> spiders from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau were studied. Multilocus molecular and morphological data identified 16 putative species, including seven new species: <i>Ectatosticta</i> <i>wenshu</i> Lin & S. Li <b>sp. nov.</b> , <i>Ectatosticta</i> <i>baima</i> Lin & S. Li <b>sp. nov.</b> , <i>Ectatosticta helii</i> Lin & S. Li <b>sp. nov.</b> , <i>Ectatosticta</i> <i>shaseng</i> Lin & S. Li <b>sp. nov.</b> , <i>Ectatosticta</i> <i>puxian</i> Lin & S. Li <b>sp. nov.</b> , and <i>Ectatosticta</i> <i>baixiang</i> Lin & S. Li <b>sp. nov.</b> This increase in the number of <i>Ectatosticta</i> species from a single species in 2008 to 16 in the current study highlights the Linnean shortfall in China. The previously known distribution of <i>Ectatosticta</i> spiders was from one locality in Gansu and is now expanded to the east and south of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.