Troglocoelotes

Troglocoelotes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Agelenidae
Genus:	Troglocoelotes Zhao & S. Q. Li, 2019[1]
Type species
T. yumiganensis Zhao & S. Q. Li, 2019
Species
9, see text

Troglocoelotes is a genus of east Asian funnel weavers. It was first described by B. Li, Z. Zhao and C. T. Zhang in 2019,[2] and it has only been found in China.[1]

Species

As of April 2022^[update] it contains nine species:[1]

• T. bailongensis Zhao & S. Q. Li, 2019 – China
• T. banmenensis Zhao & S. Q. Li, 2019 – China
• T. liangensis Zhao & S. Q. Li, 2019 – China
• T. nongchiensis Zhao & S. Q. Li, 2019 – China
• T. proximus (Chen, Zhu & Kim, 2008) – China
• T. qixianensis Zhao & S. Q. Li, 2019 – China
• T. tortus (Chen, Zhu & Kim, 2008) – China
• T. yosiianus (Nishikawa, 1999) – China
• T. yumiganensis Zhao & S. Q. Li, 2019 (type) – China

See also

• Draconarius
• Coelotes
• List of Agelenidae species

References

1. "Gen. Troglocoelotes Zhao & S. Q. Li, 2019". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
2. Li, B.; Zhao, Z.; Zhang, C. T.; et al. (2019). "Troglocoelotes gen. n., a new genus of Coelotinae spiders (Araneae, Agelenidae) from caves in South China". Zootaxa. 4554 (1): 219–238. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4554.1.7. PMID 30790985. S2CID 73488567.

Further reading

• Jiang, X. K.; Guo, X.; Yu, Z. G.; et al. (2017). "First description of the male of the eyeless spider Draconarius tortus Chen, Zhu & Kim 2008 from China (Araneae: Agelenidae: Coelotinae)". Zootaxa. 4294 (1): 141–144. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4294.1.11.
• Chen, H. M.; Zhu, M. S.; Kim, J. P. (2008). "Three new eyeless Draconarius spiders (Araneae, Amaurobiidae) from limestone caves in Guizhou, southwestern China". Korean Arachnology. 24: 85–95.
• Wang, X. P. (2002). "A generic-level revision of the spider subfamily Coelotinae (Araneae, Amaurobiidae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 269: 1–150. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2002)269<0001:AGLROT>2.0.CO;2. S2CID 83668330.
• Nishikawa, Y. (1999). "A new eyeless agelenid spider from a limestone cave in Guangxi, south China". Journal of the Speleological Society of Japan. 24: 23–26.