Ren-Chung Cheng

Ren-Chung Cheng, Slovenian arachnologist

• Biological Institute ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, No. 145, Xingda Rd., South Dist., Taichung 40227, Taiwan.
• Research Center for Global Change Biology, National Chung Hsing University, No. 145, Xingda Rd., South Dist., Taichung 40227, Taiwan.
• E-mail: bolasargiope@email.nchu.edu.tw

Taxon names authored

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• 4 taxon names authored by Ren-Chung Cheng

Publications

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2016

• Agnarsson, I., LeQuier, S.M., Kuntner, M., Cheng, R-C., Coddington, J.A. & Binford, G. 2016. Phylogeography of a good Caribbean disperser: Argiope argentata (Araneae, Araneidae) and a new ‘cryptic’ species from Cuba. ZooKeys 625: 25–44. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.625.8729. Reference page. 

2019

• Kuntner, M., Hamilton, C.A., Cheng, R.C., Gregorič, M., Lupše, N., Lokovšek, T., Lemmon, E.M., Lemmon, A.R., Agnarsson, I., Coddington, J.A. & Bond, J.E. 2019. Golden orbweavers ignore biological rules: phylogenomic and comparative analyses unravel a complex evolution of sexual size dimorphism. Systematic Biology 68(4): 555-572. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syy082. . Reference page. 

2021

• Lo, Y.Y., Cheng, R.C. & Lin, C.P. 2021. Species delimitation and taxonomic revision of Oxyopes (Araneae: Oxyopidae) of Taiwan, with description of two new species. Zootaxa 4927(1): 058–086. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4927.1.4. . Reference page. 

2023

• Lo, Y.Y., Wei, C. & Cheng, R.C. 2023. Tree-dwelling wolves: a new arboreal Hogna species (Araneae: Lycosidae) from Taiwan. Zootaxa 5353(1): 47–59. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5353.1.2. Reference page. 
• Okumura, K. & Cheng 2023. A new synonymy of Coelotes oshimaensis Shimojana 2000 (Araneae: Agelenidae: Coelotinae) in Japan. Acta Arachnologica 72(1): 17–21. Reference page. 
• Yu, K.P., Lo, Y.Y., Cheng, R.C., Raven, R.J. & Kuntner, M. 2023. Discovery of a new intertidal trapdoor spider of the genus Idioctis (Araneae: Barychelidae), with a generic range extension to Taiwan. The Journal of Arachnology 51(2): 238-248. . Reference page.