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Issue: Vol. 4567 No. 1: 14 Mar. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-03-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4567.1.2
Page range: 25–46
Abstract views: 92
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Revision of the crab-spiders of the genus Runcinioides Mello-Leitão, 1929 (Araneae, Thomisidae)

Pós-graduação em Zoologia,Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Avenida Presidente Antônio Carlos 6627, 31270-901 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Avenida Presidente Antônio Carlos 6627, 31270-901 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
Misumenini Neotropical region spiders taxonomy Arachnida Araneae

Abstract

The genus Runcinioides is revised, including the redescription of R. argenteus Mello-Leitão, 1929 and R. litteratus (Piza, 1933). The male of R. litteratus is described and illustrated for the first time and Misumenops paranensis (Mello-Leitão, 1932) is here considered a junior synonym of R. argenteus. The known geographic distribution of both species is expanded with the inclusion of new occurrence data. Runcinioides pustulatus Mello-Leitão, 1929 and Runcinioides souzai Soares, 1942 are not related to the other species of the genus, and provisionally considered as incertae sedis.

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