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Issue: Vol. 3125 No. 1: 9 Dec. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-12-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3125.1.5
Page range: 64–68
Abstract views: 39
PDF downloaded: 1

New species of Sparianthina Banks, 1929 (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae)

Laboratório Especial de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brazil, 1500, 05503-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Araneae S. parang sp. nov. S. gaita sp. nov. spiders Tobago Venezuela taxonomy

Abstract

Two new species of Sparianthina Banks, 1929 are described: S. parang sp. nov. based on males and females from Tobago, and S. gaita sp. nov. based on a male and a female from Venezuela. Both species present the heavy dorsal tegular apophysis on the male palps and the multilobed internal duct system in the vulvae, with very long fertilization ducts that are characteristic of the genus.

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