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Issue: Vol. 4772 No. 1: 7 May 2020
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2020-05-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4772.1.9
Page range: 195–200
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Description of a new Agraecina species from Tunisia (Araneae: Liocranidae), with a review of all species of the genus

University of Tunis El Manar, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Laboratory of Diversity, Management and Conservation of Biological Systems, 2092 Manar II, Tunisia
Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Gent University, Gent, Belgium.
UMR CNRS 6553 Ecobio, Universit de Rennes, Rennes, France.
University of Tunis El Manar, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Laboratory of Diversity, Management and Conservation of Biological Systems, 2092 Manar II, Tunisia
Araneae Liocranidae

Abstract

While Liocranidae is a family encompassing 283 species distributed in 32 genera (World Spider Catalog 2019), the genus Agraecina Simon, 1932 currently counts only six described species: Agraecina canariensis Wunderlich, 1992 from the Canaries, A. cristriani (Georgescu, 1989) from Romania, A. hodna Bosmans, 1999 from Algeria, A. lineata (Simon, 1878) from Europe and Kazakhstan, A. rutilia (Simon, 1897) from Sierrra Leone, and A. scupiensis Deltshev, 2016 from Macedonia. During an ecological survey in the north of Tunisia, a new Agraecina species was discovered and is described here. Spiders were collected using pitfall traps in a salt marsh.

 

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