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Issue: Vol. 2578 No. 1: 27 Aug. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-08-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2578.1.4
Page range: 62–68
Abstract views: 41
PDF downloaded: 1

Two new species of Cydrela (Araneae, Zodariidae) extending the distribution of the genus into Central Africa

Institut National pour l’Environnement et la Conservation de la Nature (INECN), Bujumbura, Burundi
Royal Museum for Central Africa (MRAC), B–3080 Tervuren, Belgium
Araneae Brachystegia woodland circumguinean forest miombo

Abstract

Two new species of Cydrela Thorell (Zodariidae) are described from Burundi: C. neptuna (%&) from miombo woodland and circumguinean forest and C. kreagra (%) from a seminatural area, both at medium altitude. Both species of Cydrela mentioned from Central Africa previously belong to other genera resulting in the new combinations Systenoplacis biunguis (Strand, 1913) and Capheris brunnea (Marx, 1893). The find of Cydrela in Burundi expands the known distribution of the genus considerably.

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