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Genus: Hersiliola Thorell, 1869 | Family: Hersiliidae Thorell, 1869

Hersiliola xinjiangensis (Liang & Wang, 1989)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006061

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Described:

Distribution: Kazakhstan, China

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Department of Plant Protection, Xinjiang Agricultural University (XAU/XJAU), Ürümqi, China f - (Liang & Wang, 1989)
Allotype: Department of Plant Protection, Xinjiang Agricultural University (XAU/XJAU), Ürümqi, China m - (Liang & Wang, 1989)
Paratype: Department of Plant Protection, Xinjiang Agricultural University (XAU/XJAU), Ürümqi, China 2m 2f - (Liang & Wang, 1989)

Taxonomic References

Hersilia xinjiangensis Liang & Wang, 1989: 56, f. 1-4 (Dmf) Original description

Hersilia xinjiangensis Hu & Wu, 1989: 78, f. 55.5-8 (mf)

Hersilia xinjiangensis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 80, f. 32O-P, 33F-G (mf)

Hersiliola xinjiangensis Marusik & Fet, 2009: 94, f. 13.1-4 (mf)

Hersiliola xinjiangensis Marusik, 2009c: 153, f. 3a-d (mf, T from Hersilia; mf f. 1-2, 4-13 see Hersiliola esyunini)

Hersiliola xinjiangensis Fomichev, 2025a: 2, f. 2f (m)

Hersiliola xinjiangensis Nekhaeva et al., 2026: 31, f. 2A, 3A-C (m)

References

Fomichev, A. A. (2025a). Hersiliola korbi sp. n., the first record of the family Hersiliidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Tian Shan Mountains, Kyrgyzstan. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 69: 2-4. doi: 10.30963/aramit6902 -- Show included taxa

Hu, J. L. & Wu, W. G. (1989). Spiders from agricultural regions of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Shandong University Publishing House Jinan, 435 pp. -- Show included taxa

Liang, T. & Wang, J. F. (1989). A new species of spiders of the genus Hersilia in Xinjiang. Journal of August 1^st Agricultural College 12(2): 56-58. -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M. (2009c). On the northernmost species of Hersiliidae (Aranei), Hersiliola xinjiangensis (Liang & Wang, 1989), comb.n. Arthropoda Selecta 17: 153-156. -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M. & Fet, V. (2009). A survey of east Palearctic Hersiliola Thorell, 1870 (Araneae, Hersiliidae), with a description of three new genera. ZooKeys 16: 75-114. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.16.229 -- Show included taxa

Nekhaeva, A. A., Kim, L., Ishayeva, A., Ozernoy, A. & Sozontov, A. N. (2026). Spider (Arachnida, Araneae) fauna of the lowland part of the Balkhash-Alakol Basin (SE Kazakhstan): an integrated assessment. Biodiversity Data Journal 14(e181501): 1-40. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.14.e181501 -- 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

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
2026-02-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Nekhaeva et al., 2026
2026-02-20	Species distribution update	Nekhaeva et al., 2026	Old value
2025-05-30	New taxonomic reference entry	Fomichev, 2025a
2014-11-24	Species distribution update	Marusik & Fet, 2009	Old value