Rathalos xiushanensis (Song & Zhu, 1991) Anyphaena xiushanensis Song & Zhu, 1991 - Song and Zhu (1991): 1, figs 1-5 (holotype female, not examined; Chongqing, Xiushan Tujia and Miao Autonomous County); Song and Li (1997): 417, fig. 21 A-E (♂ ♀); Song et al. (1999): 402, fig. 237 L-M, Q-R (♂ ♀). Rathalos xiushanensis Lin et al. 2022: 201, fig. 1 A-E (transferred from Anyphaena). Materials Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Liu Ke-Ke; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: CEAA7778-FD5B-5016-9D39-5D379590775D; Taxon: scientificName: Rathalos xiushanensis (Song & Zhu, 1991); Location: country: China; stateProvince: Jiangxi; locality: Ji’an City, Jinggangshan County Level City, Xiangzhou Township, Baishuizhai; verbatimElevation: 375 m; verbatimCoordinates: 26 ° 36 ' 10.8 " N, 114 ° 15 ' 28.8 " E; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Event: samplingProtocol: handing; eventDate: 05-29 - 17 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Liu Ke-Ke; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: C2C2D3CD-28C9-5E79-81B9-9BD586C0F5D2; Taxon: scientificName: Rathalos xiushanensis (Song & Zhu, 1991); Location: country: China; stateProvince: Jiangxi; locality: Ji’an City, Jinggangshan County Level City, Maoping Township, Bajiaolou Scenic Spot; verbatimElevation: 418 m; verbatimCoordinates: 26 ° 28 ' 19.2 " N, 114 ° 12 ' 7.2 " E; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Event: samplingProtocol: handing; eventDate: 05-30 - 17 Description See Song and Zhu (1991) for both sexes. Distribution Known from Jiangxi (new record, Fig. 3), Sichuan (Song and Zhu 1991), Hubei (Song and Zhu 1991, Lin et al. 2022) and Chongqing (Lin et al. 2022), China. Notes The genus Rathalos Lin & Li, 2022 was established by Lin et al. (2022) based on the type species of Anyphaena xiushanensis. Besides the type locality, it has been recorded from bushes in diverse locations of Jiangxi, Sichuan and Hubei. It seems that widely distributed in southern China. This hypothesis will be confirmed or rejected in the future when more materials can be collected.

Published as part of Wang, Zhongjing, Tang, Ziying, Yao, Yanbin, Huang, Shihui & Liu, Keke, 2024, A survey of tube spiders (Araneae, Anyphaenidae) from Jinggangshan National Nature Reserve, Jiangxi Province, China, pp. e 133875 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e133875, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e133875