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Abstract
Southwest China is one of three famous karst areas of the world but research on cave spiders of the area is sparse. A Chinese endemic midget spider genus and species, Qianleptoneta quinquespinata (Leptonetidae) was erected by Chen and Zhu, Citation2008. Here, based on numerous materials collected from Guizhou Province, the mainly karst area of southwest China, Qianleptoneta is revised. Ten new species are described and illustrated: Q. triangula, Q. nuda, Q. identica, Q. lycotropa, Q. multiseta, Q. lophacantha, Q. robustispina, Q. palmata, Q. sublunata and Q. megaloda. The natural history of each species is presented.
Acknowledgements
This research work was jointly supported by the State Key Basic Research Plan (Grant No. 2006CB403200), the Knowledge Innovation Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. Kzcx2-yw-306), the National Key Technology R&D Program (Grant No. 2006BAC 01A 09 and 2008BAD98B07) and the Talents Foundation of the Guizhou Academy of Sciences (2009–2).