Kronopolites gracilipes Xiong & Chen & Huang & Jiang & Jiang 2026, comb. nov.

Kronopolites gracilipes (Verhoeff, 1933) comb. nov. Figs 3 C, 4, 5 Mandarinopus gracilipes Verhoeff, 1933: 19–20, figs 10, 11. Type locality: Pei-shui-ho (= Baishuijiang River), China. Sundanina gracilipes: Attems 1936: 223; 1937: 164, synonymized by Jeekel (1968: 72). Mandarinopus gracilipes: Jeekel 1988: 98; Wang and Mauriès 1996: 87; Nguyen and Sierwald 2013: 1288; Golovatch 2019: 348 –350, figs 6–9; Golovatch and Liu 2020: 170. Material examined. CHINA: Gansu Province: • 3 ♂♂ and 14 ♀♀ (CMMI 20250809001, 20250809018–20250808031), Wenxian County, Qujia Village (32.8852°N, 104.8263°E), asl. 940 m, 9.VIII.2025, Xuankong Jiang, Yifei Yu & Yuan Xiong leg. Diagnosis. Differs from other species of the genus by the following combination of characters: collum and metaterga smooth; gonopod with blunt processes a and b, and a distofemoral process. Distribution. China: Gansu (Golovatch 2019). Remarks. Verhoeff (1933) described a new monotypic genus and species, Mandarinopus gracilipes, from the Baishuijiang River, Gansu. This species has a distofemoral process (femoral thorn) (red arrow in Fig. 3) on its gonopodal femorite, referred to either as the distofemoral process (Golovatch 2019) or the sharp thorn (Attems 1937).