Sinophaena Lin & Li, 2021

Lin, Yejie, Marusik, Yuri M., Gao, Caixia, Xu, Hao, Zhang, Xiaoqing, Wang, Ziyi, Zhu, Wenhui & Li, Shuqiang, 2021, Twenty-three new spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) from Asia, Zoological Systematics 46 (2), pp. 91-152 : 104

Genus Sinophaena Lin & Li , gen. nov.

Type species: Sinophaena xiweni Lin & Li , sp. nov.

Diagnosis. Sinophaena Lin & Li , gen. nov. can be easily distinguished from Macrophyes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893 by the following characters: habitus with black pattern (vs. concolorous in Macrophyes ), the anterior part of the epigynum with a pair of tongue-shaped membranes (vs. membranes absent in Macrophyes ), CDs straight in Sinophaena Lin & Li , gen. nov. (vs. curved in Macrophyes ).

Description. Medium-sized. Body length 6.60–7.62. Carapace oval, covered with white setae and black pattern. PLE largest, AME smallest, AER recurved, PER procurved. Fovea distinct. Body and legs covered by white setae. Epigyne simple, with a pair of membrane. COs hidden under the membrane, inconspicuous. CDs straight. One pair of S large, oval. FDs posteriorly directed.

Etymology. The new generic name is a combination of “ Sino ” (meaning China) and “ Anyphaena ”. The gender is feminine.

Species included. Sinophaena xiweni Lin & Li , sp. nov. and Sinophaena bivalva (Zhang & Song, 2004) comb. nov.