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Issue: Vol. 4706 No. 2: 9 Dec. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-12-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4706.2.12
Page range: 391–400
Abstract views: 67
PDF downloaded: 2

Four new species of Myrmecium Latreille, 1824 and complementary description of M. machetero Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 (Araneae: Corinnidae: Castianeirinae)

Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi—MPEG, Coordenação de Zoologia, Laboratório de Aracnologia, Avenida Perimetral, 1901, Terra Firme, CEP: 66077-830, Belém, Pará, Brazil. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Evolução—Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi.
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi—MPEG, Coordenação de Zoologia, Laboratório de Aracnologia, Avenida Perimetral, 1901, Terra Firme, CEP: 66077-830, Belém, Pará, Brazil. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Evolução—Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi.
Araneae taxonomy ant-like spiders morphology

Abstract

Four new species of Myrmecium Latreille, 1824 are described: M. urcuchillay sp. nov. (based on males from Cusco, Peru), M. girafales sp. nov. (on a female from Huánuco, Peru), M. coutoi sp. nov. (on a female from Cusco, Peru) and M. quasimodo sp. nov. (on males and females from Pará, Brazil). The male form of M. machetero Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 is described for the first time. The number of known species of the genus from Peru is increased from nine to 12 and maps of distribution of the Peruvian species and M. quasimodo sp. nov are provided.

 

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