Kun Yu

Kun Yu, Chinese arachnologist

Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Southwest University (SWUC), Chongqing 400715 China.
E-mail: 13468690210@163.com

Taxon names authored

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(List may be incomplete)

Yu, K. & Zhang, Z.S. 2018: On three species of the trapdoor spider Genus Cyclocosmia from China (Araneae, Halonoproctidae). Zootaxa 4532(2): 248–256. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4532.2.4. Reference page.

Yu, K. & Zhang, F. 2021. A new troglobitic mygalomorph spider from China (Araneae, Nemesiidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 30(2): 118-122. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2021.02.07 . Reference page.
Yu, K., Zhang, S.Y. & Zhang, F. 2021. Chinothele jixiang gen. et sp. nov., a new euagrid spider from China (Araneae, Euagridae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 30(1): 26-30. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2021.01.004 . Reference page.
Yu, K., Zhang, F. & Zhang, J.X. 2021a. First new species of the genus Liphistius Schiödte, 1849 from China (Araneae: Liphistiidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 30(1): 36-40. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2021.01.006. . Reference page.
Yu, K., Zhang, S.Y., Zhang, F., Li, Z.-M. & Yang, Z.-Z. 2021. Taxonomic studies on five species of Selenocosmiinae from China (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Faunitaxys 9(33): 1–13. Reference page.

Yu, K., Wang, W.H., Maddison, W.P. & Zhang, J.X. 2022. Revision of the genus Charippus Thorell, 1895, with descriptions of eight new species (Araneae, Salticidae, Euophryini). Zootaxa 5129(2): 151–198. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5129.2.1. . Reference page.

Wang, W.H., Yu, K. & Zhang, J.X. 2023. Calxattus gen. nov. from China (Araneae: Salticidae: Spartaeinae: Spartaeini), with redescription of the type species. Acta Arachnologica Sinica 32(1): 8-15. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2023.01.002. . Reference page.
Yu, K., Li, C.Z., Zhang, S.Y. & Zhang, F. 2023c. A new trapdoor spider of Cyclocosmia Ausserer, 1871 from southern China (Araneae, Halonoproctidae). Biodiversity Data Journal 11(e98311): 1-23. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.11.e98311. . Reference page.
Yu, K., Wang, C., Maddison, W.P. & Zhang, J.X. 2023. Two new genera of Euophryini from southern China and Malaysia (Araneae, Salticidae, Salticinae). Zootaxa 5231(3): 201–248. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5231.3.1. Reference page.
Yu, K., Maddison, W.P. & Zhang, J-X. 2023. Taxonomic revision of Orcevia Thorell, 1890, with description of fifteen new species (Araneae, Salticidae, Euophryini). Zootaxa 5384(1): 1–79. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5384.1.1. . Reference page.

Yu, K., Ni, Y. & Zhang, J.X. 2024. Notes on jumping spiders from Xizang: three new species and two new records in China (Araneae, Salticidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 33(1): 8-18. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1005 9628.2024.01.002. . Reference page.
Zhang, H.B., Yu, K., Zhang, F. 2024. The third species of the genus Shinobius Yaginuma, 1991 from Asia (Araneae, Trechaleidae). Zootaxa 5537(1): 141–146. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5537.1.8. . Reference page.

Hao, L., Yu, K. & Zhang, F. 2025. Description of five new species from southern China, with note on the type species of Latouchia Pocock, 1901 (Araneae, Halonoproctidae). Biodiversity Data Journal 13: e137852. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e137852. . Reference page.
Ni, Y., Yu, K. & Zhang, J.X. 2025. Description of three new species of Spartaeini (Araneae, Salticidae, Spartaeinae) from China and Malaysia. ZooKeys 1232: 343–355. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1232.146855. . Reference page.