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Issue: Vol. 3613 No. 6: 14 Feb. 2013
Type: Articles
Published: 2013-02-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3613.6.2
Page range: 548–556
Abstract views: 41
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A new orb-weaving spider from the Argentinean flooding pampas grasses: Aculepeira morenoae new species (Araneae, Araneidae)

División Aracnología. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia” (MACN-Ar, CONICET). Av. Ángel Gallardo 470, C1405DJR Buenos Aires, Argentina
División Aracnología. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia” (MACN-Ar, CONICET). Av. Ángel Gallardo 470, C1405DJR Buenos Aires, Argentina
División Aracnología. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia” (MACN-Ar, CONICET). Av. Ángel Gallardo 470, C1405DJR Buenos Aires, Argentina
Araneae flooding grasses new species orb-weavers spider taxonomy

Abstract

A new species of the orb-weaving spider genus Aculepeira Chamberling & Ivie 1942, A. morenoae new species, is de-scribed and illustrated based on male and female specimens from the Argentinean natural flooding pampas grasses.

 

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