Otacilia Thorell, 1897

Liu, Ke-Ke, Luo, Hui-Pu, Ying, Yuan-Hao, Xiao, Yu-Xin, Xu, Xiang & Xiao, Yong-Hong, 2020, A survey of Phrurolithidae spiders from Jinggang Mountain National Nature Reserve, Jiangxi Province, China, ZooKeys 947, pp. 1-37 : 1

Genus Otacilia Thorell, 1897

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Currently, there are 99 species included in this genus, with 74 recorded from China. In the last five years, the total number of species from the country has increased considerably, due to the considerable attention paid to them by many arachnologists. They are widely distributed in southern China, such as Hainan (six species), Taiwan (two species), Zhejiang (four species), Yunnan (ten species), Guangxi (two species), Guizhou (five species), Sichuan (eight species), Chongqing (nine species), Hunan (19 species), Hubei (four species) and Jiangxi (seven species) provinces. Jin et al. (2016) divided Otacilia into five species groups, i.e., the armatissima -group, ambon -group, longituba -group, pseudostella -group, and a fifth unnamed group containing the remaining species (i.e., species known from a single sex, or with poor original descriptions and figures or peculiar structures). These seven new species most likely belong to the armatissima -group. Only one new species, O. bijiashanica Liu, sp. nov., has two tibial apophyses, while the others only have one.