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Issue: Vol. 4624 No. 2: 28 Jun. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-06-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4624.2.8
Page range: 256–266
Abstract views: 72
PDF downloaded: 2

Three new species of Thaloe Brescovit (Araneae: Anyphaenidae: Anyphaeninae), with descriptions of the first known females of the genus

Laboratório Especial de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brazil 500, 05503-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Laboratório Especial de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brazil 500, 05503-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Rua do Matão 14, 05508-090, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Araneae Ghost spider Dionycha Taxonomy

Abstract

Three new species of the genus Thaloe are described from Antillean region: Thaloe maricao n. sp., from Maricao, Puerto Rico and Virgin Island, Thaloe leboulet n. sp., from Le Boulet and Mariani, Haiti and Thaloe ebano n. sp., from the Dominican Republic. Females of species of this genus are described for the first time.

 

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