Araneus xiang Mi & Li, 2023

Lin, Yejie, Li, Shuqiang & Pham, Dinh-Sac, 2023, Taxonomic notes on some spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) from China and Vietnam, Zoological Systematics 48 (1), pp. 1-99 : 4

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11865/zs.2023101
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treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Araneus xiang Mi & Li
status	nom. nov.

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Araneus xiang Mi & Li , nom. nov.

Araneus arcuatus Mi & Li, 2022: 77 . (preoccupied nomen)

Etymology. The species is named after the Chinese Pinyin for elephant. The holotype locality was occupied by 17 individual elephants ( Elephas maximus Linnaeus, 1758 ) in 2021; noun.

Diagnosis and description. See Mi & Li, 2022: 77.

Remarks. Mi & Li (2022) established A. arcuatus Mi & Li, 2022 in the family Araneidae Clerck, 1757 based on specimens from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China, a nomen which is a primary homonym of A. arcuatus Clerck, 1757 (now in Evarcha Simon, 1902 of the family Salticidae Blackwall,1841 ), described from Sweden. Consequently, a new species name, A. xiang Mi & Li , nom. nov., is proposed here for the taxon from Yunnan, China.