Shuqiang Li is a Chinese

arachnologist Arachnology is the scientific study of arachnids, which comprise spiders and related invertebrates such as scorpions, pseudoscorpions, and harvestmen. Those who study spiders and other arachnids are arachnologists. More narrowly, the study of s ...

and a professor at the Institute of Zoology of the

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Repub ...

. Li is best known for his work with

spiders Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species di ...

and has described hundreds of new species and many genera. He is Editor in Chief of the journal ''Zoological Systematics'' (formerly ''Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica'').

Selected publications

* Tong, Y.F. & Li, S.Q (2007) ''One new genus and four new species of oonopid spiders from Southwest China (Araneae: Oonopidae).'' ''Annales Zoologici'' 57(2): 331-340. * Wang X.P., Zhu M.S. & Li S (2010) ''A review of the coelotine genus Eurocoelotes (Araneae: Amaurobiidae).'' ''Journal of Arachnology'' 38: 79–98. * Lin, Y., & Li, S (2014) ''Mysmenidae (Arachnida, Araneae), a spider family newly recorded from Vietnam.'' ''Zootaxa'', ''3826''(1), 169–194. 10.11646/zootaxa.3826.1.5 * Chang Liu, Fengyuan Li, Shuqiang Li, et al (2017) ''Five new genera of the subfamily Psilodercinae (Araneae: Ochyroceratidae) from Southeast Asia''. Zoological Systematics, 42(4): 395-417. * Tong Y, Chen H, Liu S, Li S (2018) ''A new genus of oonopid spiders from Myanmar (Araneae, Oonopidae).'' ZooKeys 794: 31-43. 10.3897/zookeys.794.29156 * Chang W-J, Li S (2019) ''Fourteen new species of the spider genus Thaiderces from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Psilodercidae).'' ZooKeys 869: 103-146. 10.3897/zookeys.869.35546 * Chang W-J, Li S (2020) ''Thirty-one new species of the spider genus Leclercera from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Psilodercidae).'' ZooKeys 913: 1-87. 10.3897/zookeys.913.48650 * Lin Y, Li S (2020) ''Two new genera and eight new species of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China.'' ZooKeys 952: 95-128. 10.3897/zookeys.952.51849 * Chang W-J, Yao Z, Li S (2020) ''Twenty-eight new species of the spider genus Merizocera Fage, 1912 (Araneae, Psilodercidae) from South and Southeast Asia.'' ZooKeys 961: 41-118. 10.3897/zookeys.961.53058 * Xu H, Zhang X, Yao Z, Ali A, Li S (2021) ''Thirty-five new species of the spider genus Pimoa (Araneae, Pimoidae) from Pan-Himalaya.'' ZooKeys 1029: 1-92. 10.3897/zookeys.1029.64080 * Cheng W, Bian D, Tong Y, Li S (2021) ''A new genus and two new species of oonopid spiders from Tibet, China (Araneae, Oonopidae).'' ZooKeys 1052: 55-69. 10.3897/zookeys.1052.66402

References

1965 births Living people 20th-century Chinese zoologists Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Arachnologists {{Academic-bio-stub