title: The first record of the wolf spider subfamily Zoicinae from China (Araneae: Lycosidae), with the description of two new species.
abstract: The subfamily Zoicinae Lehtinen & Hippa, 1979 is here first recorded from China with the description of a new species in the genus Zoica Simon, 1898, Z. unciformis sp. nov. from Wild Elephant Valley (Yunnan) and a new species in the genus Lysania Thorell, 1890, L. deangia sp. nov., from a rubber plantation in Nangsang Village (Yunnan). Lysania pygmaea Thorell, 1890 is recorded for the first time in China, from three localities in Yunnan and Guangxi and is redescribed here.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory ofEco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), School of Life Science, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.
authors.forename: Zongxu
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Lu-yu
authors.initials: LY
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Zhi-sheng
authors.initials: ZS
authors.lastname: Zhangi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002681:China; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013045:Species Specificity; D013112:Spiders / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification*