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Issue: Vol. 5428 No. 3: 22 Mar. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-03-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5428.3.1
Page range: 301-350
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The Guardstone Spiders of the genus Scotinella (Araneae: Phrurolithidae) in the Southeastern United States

Division of Invertebrate Zoology; American Museum of Natural History; New York; 10024; New York; U.S.A.
Laboratorio de Aracnología y Entomología; Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste S.C.; La Paz; 23096; Baja California Sur; México
Araneae Phrurolithus Phruronellus taxonomy North America

Abstract

Scotinella Banks is accepted as the valid name for the numerous North American phrurolithids with a knoblike femoral apophysis and a bifid retrolateral tibial apophysis on the male palp; Phruronellus Chamberlin is considered a junior synonym of Scotinella. The 20 species of Scotinella known to occur in the southeastern United States are revised. Seven specific names are transferred from Phrurolithus to Scotinella and considered valid: P. alatus Ivie & Barrows, P. apacheus Gertsch, P. banksi Gertsch, P. goodnighti Muma, P. pinturus Ivie & Barrows, P. similis Banks, and P. singulus Gertsch. Three specific names are newly synonymized: Phrurolithus absurdus Gertsch with S. floridae (Chamberlin & Gertsch), P. concisus Gertsch with S. alata (Ivie & Barrows), and P. pipensis Muma with S. banksi (Gertsch). The male allotype of S. singula belongs to S. goodnighti (Muma); the actual males of S. singula are newly described, as are those of S. apachea. Six new species are described: S. iviei sp. nov. and S. bennetti sp. nov. from Florida, S. gertschi sp. nov. from Florida and South Carolina, S. pennimani sp. nov. from Georgia, S. thurstoni sp. nov. from Louisiana and Mississippi, and S. coylei sp. nov. from Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia.

 

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