The crab spiders of the genus Lysiteles from Yunnan Province, China (Araneae: Thomisidae)

This paper describes or redescribes 25 species of crab spiders of the genus Lysiteles (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Yunnan Province, China, including: 12 new species (L. arcuatus sp. nov., L. auriculatus sp. nov., L. clavellatus sp. nov., L. conflatus sp. nov., L. corrugus sp. nov., L. curvatus sp. nov., L. distortus sp. nov., L. guoi sp. nov., L. spirellus sp. nov., L. subdianicus sp. nov., L. transversus sp. nov. and L. uniprocessus sp. nov.); 3 new records for China (L. himalayensis Ono, 1979; L. niger Ono, 1979 and L. punctiger Ono, 2001); and 10 species previously known from China (L. ambrosii Ono, 2001, L. bhutanus Ono, 2001, L. conicus Tang, Yin, Peng, Ubick & Griswold, 2007, L. davidi Tang, Yin, Peng, Ubick & Griswold, 2007, L. dentatus Tang, Yin, Peng, Ubick & Griswold, 2007, L. dianicus Song & Zhao, 1994, L. kunmingensis Song & Zhao, 1994, L. maius Ono, 1979, L. saltus Ono, 1979, and L. torsivus Zhang, Zhu & Tso, 2006). The males of L. punctiger and L. dianicus are described here for the first time. Of these 25 Lysiteles species, 24 were collected from the Gaoligong Mountains, Yunnan Province. Detailed morphological characters, distribution map, photos and illustrations of the habitus and genital organs are given to each species except for the five ones reported in the paper by Tang et al. (2007) (L. ambrosii, L. bhutanus, L. conicus, L. davidi and L. dentatus). All species are described in alphabetic order. The key to species of the genus Lysiteles from Yunnan Province is presented.