Guicybaeus

Guicybaeus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Cybaeidae
Genus:	Guicybaeus; Wang, Chen, Yang & Zhang, 2023
Species:	G. shanyii
Binomial name
	Guicybaeus shanyii; Wang, Chen, Yang & Zhang, 2023

Guicybaeus is a monotypic genus of spiders in the family Cybaeidae containing the single species, Guicybaeus shanyii.¹

Distribution

Guicybaeus shanyii has only been recorded from Lipu in Guangxi, China.¹

Etymology

The genus name is a combination of 桂; Guì, the abbreviation of Guangxi (from the name of former provincial capital Guilin), and related genus Cybaeus.²

The species name honors Shan-Yi Zhou, a Chinese ant entomologist born in Lipu City.²

References

"Gen. Guicybaeus Wang, Chen, Yang & Zhang, 2023". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-28.
Wang, L. Y.; Chen, X. W.; Yang, Y. S.; Zhang, Z. S. (2023). "Guicybaeus gen. nov., a new spider genus of Cybaeidae from Guangxi, China (Araneae)". Acta Arachnologica Sinica. 32 (2): 82–86. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2023.02.003.

[wsc-1] "Gen. Guicybaeus Wang, Chen, Yang & Zhang, 2023". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-28.

[wang2023-2] Wang, L. Y.; Chen, X. W.; Yang, Y. S.; Zhang, Z. S. (2023). "Guicybaeus gen. nov., a new spider genus of Cybaeidae from Guangxi, China (Araneae)". Acta Arachnologica Sinica. 32 (2): 82–86. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2023.02.003.

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