Abstract
Three species of the purse-web spider genus Atypus Latreille, 1804, collected from Hunan and Sichuan Provinces of China, are diagnosed and described as new to science: A. yaozu sp. nov. (♂♀), A. siyiensis sp. nov. (♂♀) and A. yanjingensis sp. nov. (♂♀). Detailed descriptions, photographs and DNA barcodes of the three new species and a distribution map of Atypus species in China are provided. Additionally, we enrich the general natural history of the genus Atypus through a decade of observation.