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Issue: Vol. 1560 No. 1: 27 Aug. 2007
Type: Article
Published: 2007-08-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1560.1.5
Page range: 55–61
Abstract views: 37
PDF downloaded: 1

Three new ground dweller Mesabolivar González-Sponga, 1998  (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil

Laboratório de Artrópodes, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brazil, 1500, 05503-900, Butantã, São Paulo, SP, Brazil Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Laboratório de Artrópodes, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brazil, 1500, 05503-900, Butantã, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Laboratório de Zoologia, Universidade Regional de Blumenau, Campus I, R. Antônio de Veiga, 140, T-206, Victor Konder, 89012-900, Blumenau, SC, Brazil
Araneae Pholcidae Mesabolivar Neotropical region systematics

Abstract

Three new ground dwelling pholcid species of the genus Mesabolivar from Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil, are described: M. huberi n. sp., M. rudilapsi n. sp., and M. embapua n. sp.

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