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Issue: Vol. 1485 No. 1: 28 May. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-05-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1485.1.4
Page range: 43–49
Abstract views: 52
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of the spider genus Xenonemesia Goloboff and first record of  X. platensis Goloboff from Brazil (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Microstigmatidae)

Laboratório de Artrópodes, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brasil, 1500, 05503–900, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Programa de Pós-graduação em Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Laboratório de Artrópodes, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brasil, 1500, 05503–900, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Laboratório de Artrópodes, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brasil, 1500, 05503–900, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Araneae Atlantic Forest new record spiders taxonomy Xenonemesia otti n. sp.

Abstract

Xenonemesia otti n. sp. (Microstigmatidae) is described from Viamão and X. platensis Goloboff newly recorded for the first time from Caçapava do Sul, both in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

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