Species of the family Gnaphosidae Banks, 1892 were surveyed in Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, and nine species found including two new genera seven species. The monotypic are Meizhelan gen. nov. , with type muhong sp. (♂♀) Yuqilin Y. lujunyi (♂♀). Five additional described: Allomicythus suochao (♂♀); Hongkongia liutang Sernokorba ruanxiaoer (♂♀), Synaphosus leiheng Sy. lijun unknown m...

New faunistic data are provided on the ground spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) of Iraq. Three genera ( Haplodrassus Chamberlin, 1922; Minosiella Dalmas, 1921; Odontodrassus Jézéquel, 1965) and six species dalmatensis (L. Koch, 1866); intermedia Denis, 1958; aravaensis Levy, 1999; mundulus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872); Pterotricha dalmasi Fage, 1929; Zelotes fagei 1955) reported in Iraq for first ...

The spider clade Gnaphosoidea gathers dionychans with obliquely angled posterior median eyes with flat lenses (Platnick, 1990), which would be part of a compass mechanism rather than being used to form images (Dacke et al., 2001). Besides the Gnaphosidae Pocock, by far the most diverse family of the group (with over 2,000 species), the clade includes six other spider families, mostly recorded f...