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Genus: Hongkongia Song & Zhu, 1998 | Family: Gnaphosidae Banks, 1892

Hongkongia ellenae (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026889

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Described:

Distribution: China, Indonesia (Sulawesi), Philippines

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Holotype: Department of Ecology, University of Hong Kong, China m of Hongkongia wuae - (Song & Zhu, 1998a)
Holotype: International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Manila, Philippines f - (Lin, 2024)
Paratype: International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Manila, Philippines 1m 1jm - (Lin, 2024)

Taxonomic References

Geodrassus ellenae Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 194, f. 112a-d, 113a-g (Dmf; in synonymized generic name) Original description

Hongkongia wuae Song & Zhu, 1998a: 104, f. 1A-E (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027430]

Hongkongia wuae Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 452, f. 263P (m)

Hongkongia wuae Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001: 518, f. 886-888 (m)

Hongkongia wuae Song, Zhu & Zhang, 2004: 157, f. 92A-E (m)

Hongkongia wuae Zhang, Zhu & Tso, 2009a: 63, f. 1-7 (m)

Hongkongia wuae Lin & Li, 2023b: 149, f. 7A-C, 8C (Df)

Hongkongia ellenae Lin, 2024: 39 (T from Drassodes, S of Hongkongia wuae)

References

Barrion, A. T. & Litsinger, J. A. (1995). Riceland spiders of South and Southeast Asia. CAB International, Wallingford, UK, 700 pp., 16 pls. -- Show included taxa

Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L. (2001). Forest spiders of South East Asia: with a revision of the sac and ground spiders (Araneae: Clubionidae, Corinnidae, Liocranidae, Gnaphosidae, Prodidomidae and Trochanterriidae [sic]). Brill Leiden, 591 pp. -- Show included taxa

Lin, Y. J. & Li, S. Q. (2023b). On nine ground spiders from Xishuangbanna, China (Araneae, Gnaphosidae), including two new genera and seven new species. ZooKeys 1174: 141-174. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1174.106340 -- Show included taxa

Lin, Y. J. (2024). Taxonomy notes on twenty-five spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) from China. The Indochina Entomologist 1(6): 35-48. doi: 10.70590/ice.2024.01.06 -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X. & Zhu, M. S. (1998a). A new genus and two new species of Hong Kong spiders (Gnaphosidae, Corinnidae). Journal of Hebei Normal University, Natural Sciences 22: 104-108. -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Zhang, F. (2004). Fauna Sinica: Invertebrata Vol. 39: Arachnida: Araneae: Gnaphosidae. Science Press, Beijing, 362 pp. -- Show included taxa

Zhang, F., Zhu, M. S. & Tso, I. M. (2009a). Review of the genus Hongkongia (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from China. Zootaxa 2164: 61-68. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2164.1.6 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2024-10-29	Species distribution update	Lin, 2024	Old value
2024-10-29	Species synonymy	Lin, 2024		Hongkongia wuae synonymized with Hongkongia ellenae
2024-10-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Lin, 2024
2024-10-29	Species transferred to new genus	Lin, 2024		Species transferred from Drassodes to Hongkongia