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Issue: Vol. 4551 No. 2: 31 Jan. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-01-30
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4551.2.3
Page range: 180–194
Abstract views: 280
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Two new species of the sun-spider genus Gaucha from Argentina and Brazil (Solifugae, Mummuciidae)

Current address: Theodore Roosevelt Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Division of Invertebrate Zoology and Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024-5192, USA División Aracnología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”—CONICET, Av. Ángel Gallardo 470, CP: 1405DJR, C.A.B.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Rua Dr. Salvador França, 1427, 90690-000 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Laboratorio de Biología Reproductiva y Evolución, Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal (IDEA, CONICET—UNC), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Av. Vélez Sársfield 299, CP: X5000JJC, Córdoba, Argentina
Laboratorio de Biología Reproductiva y Evolución, Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal (IDEA, CONICET—UNC), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Av. Vélez Sársfield 299, CP: X5000JJC, Córdoba, Argentina
División Aracnología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”—CONICET, Av. Ángel Gallardo 470, CP: 1405DJR, C.A.B.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina
Araneae Solifuges Chancaní Park and Reserve Ibirapuitã Environmental Protection Area Santana do Livramento taxonomy DNA barcode

Abstract

Two new species in the South American sun-spider family Mummuciidae are herein described. Gaucha ramirezi sp. nov. is known from the Chancaní Provincial Park and Forest Reserve, Córdoba province, Argentina, and further reported for a single locality to the northeast, in Santiago del Estero province. The systematic position of this species is uncertain and it is not assigned to any species-group of Gaucha Mello-Leitão, 1924. The other species, Gaucha santana sp. nov., is only known from the Ibirapuitã Environmental Protection Area, in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, and is a member of the fasciata species-group. With these descriptions, the number of known species of Gaucha is raised to eleven.

 

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