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Issue: Vol. 5458 No. 4: 30 May 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-05-30
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5458.4.2
Page range: 495-523
Abstract views: 94
PDF downloaded: 8

Advances on the taxonomy of Megalostrata Karsch, 1880 (Araneae, Corinnidae, Corinninae), with descriptions of two new species

Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi; Coordenação de Zoologia; Laboratório de Aracnologia; Av. Perimetral 1901; CEP: 66077-830; Belém; Pará; Brazil; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia—Universidade Federal do Pará; Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Laboratorio de Aracnología; Departamento de Biología Comparada; Facultad de Ciencias; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Circuito Exterior s/n; Colonia Copilco el Bajo. C. P. 04510. Del. Coyoacán; Ciudad de México; México; Current address: Museum für Naturkunde; Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung; Invalidenstraße 43; 10115; Berlin; Germany
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi; Coordenação de Zoologia; Laboratório de Aracnologia; Av. Perimetral 1901; CEP: 66077-830; Belém; Pará; Brazil; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia—Universidade Federal do Pará; Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Araneae Soldier spiders Dionycha RTA clade Neotropical region Caribbean biodiversity

Abstract

Two new species of Megalostrata Karsch, 1880 are described: M. paludosa spec. nov. based on male and female specimens gathered in mangrove swamps in the Colombian Caribbean, and M. pacifica spec. nov., based on a female specimen from Heredia, Costa Rica. Megalostrata monistica (Chamberlin, 1924) from the Mexican west coast is redescribed, M. bruneri (Bryant, 1936) from the Island of Cuba is re-diagnosed based on photographs of the holotype, and the female of M. depicta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895) from Southeast Mexico is described for the first time. The known range of M. raptor (L. Koch, 1866), which was previously known from the Central American mainland, is extended to Curaçao, Caribbean Netherlands. A distribution map and key to the six known species of Megalostrata are also provided.

 

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