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Issue: Vol. 4462 No. 2: 27 Aug. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-08-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4462.2.3
Page range: 211–228
Abstract views: 127
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Five new species and novel descriptions of opposed sexes of four species of the spider genus Attacobius (Araneae: Corinnidae)

Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi—MPEG, Coordenação de Zoologia, Laboratório de Aracnologia, Avenida Perimetral, 1901, Terra Firme, CEP: 66077-830, Belém, Pará, Brazil Programa de Pós-graduação em Zoologia—Universidade Federal do Pará / Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Universidade Estadual da Região Tocantina do Maranhão—UEMASUL, Centro de Ciências Exatas, Naturais e Tecnológicas – CCENT, Rua Godofredo Viana, 1300, Centro, CEP: 65901-480, Imperatriz, Maranhão, Brazil Programa de Capacitação Institucional—PCI/MPEG, CNPq, Coordenação de Ciências da Terra e Ecologia, Laboratório de Mode-lagem Ecológica
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi—MPEG, Coordenação de Zoologia, Laboratório de Aracnologia, Avenida Perimetral, 1901, Terra Firme, CEP: 66077-830, Belém, Pará, Brazil
Araneae Dionycha Corinninae Attacobiini taxonomy Neotropical region

Abstract

Five new Brazilian species of the spider genus Attacobius Mello-Leitão, 1925 are described: A. demiguise n. sp. (based on male and female) and A. carimbo n. sp. (male), both from State of Pará; A. thalitae n. sp. (male) from the State of Minas Gerais; A. lauricae n. sp. (male) from State of Tocantins; and A. tremembe n. sp. (female) from State of Piauí. The males of A. luederwaldti (Mello-Leitão, 1923) and A. verhaaghi Bonaldo & Brescovit, 1998, and the females of A. uiriri Bonaldo & Brescovit, 2005 and A. blakei Bonaldo & Brescovit, 2005, are described for the first time. Additionally, new records of A. attarum (Roewer, 1935), A. carranca Bonaldo & Brescovit, 2005, A. kitae Bonaldo & Brescovit, 2005 and A. tucurui Bonaldo & Brescovit, 2005 are given.

 

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