XuEtAl2025_Sarax5genesAnalysis.zip

A new species of the whip spider genus Sarax Simon, 1892 from Yunnan Province, China is described: S. yunnan Xu, Yu & F. Zhang sp. nov., which is now the second Sarax species known only from China. The systematic position of S. yunnan sp. nov. was tested through phylogenetic analysis based on newly sequenced genes (18S, 28S and COI) and datasets of previous studies; like Sarax sinensis Wu et al., 2022, Sarax yunnan sp. nov., belongs to the West Asian Clade of Sarax.

记述了中国云南省产鞭蛛（whip spider）属（Sarax Simon, 1892）1新种：云南鞭蛛新种（S. yunnan Xu, Yu & F. Zhang sp. nov.），该种为目前已知第二种仅分布于中国的Sarax属物种。本研究基于新测序的18S、28S及COI基因序列以及既往研究的数据集，通过系统发育分析验证了该新种的系统分类地位；与2022年Wu等发表的中华鞭蛛（Sarax sinensis Wu et al., 2022）一致，该新种隶属于Sarax属的西亚支系。