The Panjange nigrifrons group in Borneo (Araneae: Pholcidae): high diversity in Sarawak, apparent absence in Sabah

We revise the Panjange nigrifrons group in Borneo and document an unexpected diversity in western Sarawak forests. Five species occur within 80 km from Kuching, each species being known from its type locality only. Further species occur east until Niah, but the genus seems to be absent from Sabah. We contrast this with another pholcid genus ( Aetana Huber, 2005), which is diverse in Sabah and westward until Niah, but does not seem to occur in central and western Sarawak. Five species are newly described: Panjange kapit Huber, sp. nov., Panjange kubah Huber, sp. nov., Panjange niah Huber, sp. n... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Bernhard A. Huber
Charles Leh Moi Ung
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
Reihe/Periodikum: European Journal of Taxonomy, Vol 0, Iss 184 (2016)
Verlag/Hrsg.: Consortium of European Natural History Museums
Schlagwörter: Sarawak / Sabah / Panjange / taxonomy / biogeography / Zoology / QL1-991 / Botany / QK1-989
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2016.184

We revise the Panjange nigrifrons group in Borneo and document an unexpected diversity in western Sarawak forests. Five species occur within 80 km from Kuching, each species being known from its type locality only. Further species occur east until Niah, but the genus seems to be absent from Sabah. We contrast this with another pholcid genus ( Aetana Huber, 2005), which is diverse in Sabah and westward until Niah, but does not seem to occur in central and western Sarawak. Five species are newly described: Panjange kapit Huber, sp. nov., Panjange kubah Huber, sp. nov., Panjange niah Huber, sp. nov., Panjange pueh Huber, sp. nov., Panjange seowi Huber, sp. nov.; Panjange tahai (Huber, 2011) comb. nov. is transferred from Pholcus .