Description of Two Unrecorded Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Korea

Abstract Two newly recorded spiders, Cheiracanthium lascivum Karsch, 1879 of Eutichuridae and Gnaphosa kamurai Ovtsharenko, Platnick and Song, 1992 of Gnaphosidae are described and illustrated from Korea.Key Words: Cheiracanthium lascivum, Gnaphosa kamurai, Eutichuridae, Gnaphosidae, Korea Received: December 20, 2014. Revised: February 10, 2015. Accept ed: February 10, 2015.Corresponding author: Seung-Tae KimLife and Environment Research Institute, Konkuk University, Seo ul 143-701, Republic of KoreaTel: 82-2-450-3754, Fax: 82-2-450-3726, E-mail: stkim2000@hanma il.net Introduction The spider genus Cheiracanthium of Miturgidae in Korea comprises 7 species to date (Namkung et al. 2009); C. brevispinum Song, Feng and Shang, 1982, C. erraticum (Walckenaer 1802), C. japonicum Bosenberg and Strand, 1906, C. taegense Paik, 1990, C. uncinatum Paik, 1985, C. unicum Bosenberg and Strand, 1906 and C. zhejiangense Hu and Song, 1982. Recently, the genus was transferred from the Miturgidae to the Eutichuridae by Ramirez (2014). One male of