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Issue: Vol. 4236 No. 2: 23 Feb. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-02-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4236.2.2
Page range: 244–268
Abstract views: 89
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Amazoonops, a new genus of goblin spiders (Araneae: Oonopidae) from the Brazilian Amazon

Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul. Rua Dr. Salvador França, 1427, 90690-000, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Universidade Federal do Pará, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas. Rua Augusto Corrêa, 01, Guamá, 66075-110, Belém, PA, Brazil
Instituto Butantan, Laboratório Especial de Coleções Zoológicas. Av. Vital Brasil, 1500, 05503-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Coordenação de Zoologia, Laboratório de Aracnologia. Avenida Perimetral, 1901, 66040-170, Belém, PA, Brazil
Araneae Dysderoidea Araneomorphae Neotropical Region taxonomy

Abstract

The new genus Amazoonops is proposed for a group of species from the Brazilian Amazon that belong to the Varioonops group, which is presently composed by Varioonops Bolzern & Platnick, Ponsoonops Bolzern and Bipoonops Bolzern. In these genera, female lacks the dorsal abdominal scutum, have a reduced abdominal post-epigastric scutum, and the male palp has unfused cymbium and tegulum. The incomplete abdominal epigastric scutum of females and the sternal surface covered with deep pits in both sexes are considered as putative synapomorphies of the new genus. Five new species are described, four from the state of Pará (Amazoonops almeirim sp. nov., A. cachimbo sp. nov., A. caxiuana sp. nov. and A. juruti sp. nov.) and one from the state of Amazonas (A. ducke sp. nov.). Females of A. almeirim sp. nov. and A. ducke sp. nov. are unknown.

 

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