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Genus: Asianopis Lin & Li, 2020 | Family: Deinopidae C. L. Koch, 1850

Asianopis liukuensis (Yin, Griswold & Yan, 2002)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038508

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Described:

Distribution: India, China, Malaysia (Borneo)

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Holotype: College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University (HNU), Changsha, China m (lost) - (Lin et al., 2020a)
Allotype: Southern Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Chennai (SRC-ZSI/ZSIC), India f (I/SP 20) of Deinopis scrubjunglei - (Caleb, 2020b)
Holotype: Southern Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Chennai (SRC-ZSI/ZSIC), India m (I/SP 19) of Deinopis scrubjunglei - (Caleb, 2020b)

Taxonomic References

Deinopis liukuensis Yin, Griswold & Yan, 2002: 610, f. 1-7 (Dm) Original description

Deinopis scrubjunglei Caleb & Mathai, 2014a: 2, f. 1-20 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047082]

Deinopis liukuensis Zhang & Wang, 2017: 238, 7 f. (mf)

Asianopis liukuensis Lin et al., 2020a: 74, f. 2B,E-F,I, 4A-F, 5A-B, 6A-B, 7A-B, 8A-B, 19A-C, 21A, 22A,G (mf, T from Deinopis, S of Deinopis scrubjunglei)

Asianopis liukuensis Omelko & Fomichev, 2025: 315, f. 5-6, 13, 18, 27-29, 31 (m)

References

Caleb, J. T. D. & Mathai, M. T. (2014a). A new species of Deinopis MacLeay (Araneae: Deinopidae) from India. Indian Journal of Arachnology 3(1): 1-7. -- Show included taxa

Lin, Y. J., Shao, L., Hänggi, A., Caleb, J. T. D., Koh, J. K. H., Jäger, P. & Li, S. Q. (2020a). Asianopis gen. nov., a new genus of the spider family Deinopidae from Asia. ZooKeys 911: 67-99. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.911.38761 -- Show included taxa

Omelko, M. M. & Fomichev, A. A. (2025). New data on Asianopis (Aranei: Deinopidae) in Southeast Asia. Zootaxa 5637(2): 311-325. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5637.2.5 -- Show included taxa

Yin, C. M., Griswold, C. E. & Yan, H. M. (2002). A new ogre-faced spider (Deinopis) from the Gaoligong Mountains, Yunnan, China (Araneae, Deinopidae). Journal of Arachnology 30(3): 610-612. doi: 10.1636/0161-8202(2002)030[0610:ANOFSD]2.0.CO;2 -- Show included taxa

Zhang, Z. S. & Wang, L. Y. (2017). Chinese spiders illustrated. Chongqing University Press, 954 pp. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-05-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Omelko & Fomichev, 2025
2025-05-21	Species distribution update	Omelko & Fomichev, 2025	Old value
2020-02-13	Species distribution update	Lin et al., 2020a	Old value
2020-02-13	Species synonymy	Lin et al., 2020a		Asianopis scrubjunglei synonymized with Asianopis liukuensis
2020-02-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Lin et al., 2020a
2020-02-13	Species transferred to new genus	Lin et al., 2020a		Species transferred from Deinopis to Asianopis
2019-03-22	New taxonomic reference entry	Zhang & Wang, 2017