Yuelushannus

Yuelushannus is a genus of spiders in the Linyphiidae family described in May 2020 by Irfan et al. It contains two species, Y. alatus and Y. barbatus. Both species are found in the Hunan and Hubei provinces of China. The genus name is derived from the type locality, Yuelu Mountain in the province of Hunan.[1][2]

Yuelushannus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Yuelushannus
Irfan et al., 2020[1]
Type species
Yuelushannus barbatus
Irfan et al., 2020
Species
  • Y. alatus Irfan et al., 2020 – China
  • Y. barbatus Irfan et al., 2020 – China

See also

References
  1. World Spider Catalog (2020). "Gen. Yuelushannus Irfan, Zhou, Bashir, Mukhtar & Peng, 2020". World Spider Catalog. 21.0. Bern: Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
  2. Irfan, Muhammad; Zhou, Gu-chun; Bashir, Shahida; Mukhtar, Muhammad Khalid; Peng, Xian-jin (2020). "Yuelushannus gen. nov. (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from China". European Journal of Taxonomy. 642. doi:10.5852/ejt.2020.642.


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