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Issue: Vol. 5555 No. 1: 17 Dec. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-12-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5555.1.5
Page range: 75-90
Abstract views: 159
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Three new species of Melychiopharis (Araneae, Araneidae) from Ecuador and Peru

Museum of Nature Hamburg; Zoologie; Leibniz-Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB); Center for Taxonomy and Morphology; Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3; 20146 Hamburg; Germany.; Research Associate; American Museum of Natural History; New York; NY; U.S.A.
Museum of Nature Hamburg; Zoologie; Leibniz-Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB); Center for Taxonomy and Morphology; Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3; 20146 Hamburg; Germany.
Institute for Biological Problems of the North; Portovaya Str. 18; Magadan 685000; Russia.; Department of Zoology & Entomology; University of the Free State; Bloemfontein 9300; South Africa.; Altai State University; Lenina Pr.; 61; Barnaul; RF-656049; Russia.
Borissiak Paleontological Institute; Russian Academy of Sciences; Profsoyuznaya Str.; 123; Moscow 117647; Russia.
Araneae Spiders diversity taxonomy subfamily Testudinariae

Abstract

Three new species of the peculiar Neotropical endemic genus Melychiopharis Simon, 1895, previously known from two species from Brazil, are herein described: from Ecuador, M. komischetier Dupérré & Tapia sp. nov. (♂♀) and M. davincii Dupérré & Tapia sp. nov. (♂); from Peru, M. peruviana Eskov & Marusik sp. nov. (♂♀). Scanning electron microscope images of the spinnerets and male palp are presented for the first time and a distribution map of all Melychiopharis species occurring in South America is presented.

 

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