XuEtAl2025_Sarax5genesAnalysis(Complete 12S&16S)

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 (12S, 16S, 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.

记述了产自中国云南省的鞭蛛属（Sarax Simon, 1892）一新种：云南鞭蛛（S. yunnan Xu, Yu & F. Zhang sp. nov.），该种为目前仅知的第二种中国特有鞭蛛属物种。本研究基于新测序的12S、16S、18S、28S及COI基因序列，结合既往研究的数据集，通过系统发育分析对云南鞭蛛（S. yunnan sp. nov.）的系统分类地位进行了验证；与2022年Wu等发表的中华鞭蛛（Sarax sinensis Wu et al., 2022）一样，云南鞭蛛隶属于鞭蛛属的西亚演化支。