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Issue: Vol. 1088 No. 1: 29 Nov. 2005
Type: Articles
Published: 2005-11-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1088.1.2
Page range: 11–16
Abstract views: 67
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Description of a new genus of Nemesiidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae) from the Brazilian Cerrado

Laboratório de Artrópodes, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brasil, 1500, 05503-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil Programa de Pós-graduação em Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica, RJ, Brazil
Laboratório de Artrópodes, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brasil, 1500, 05503-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Araneae Anaminae Longistylus Longistylus ygapema spider taxonomy Brazil

Abstract

The new genus Longistylus of the family Nemesiidae is described from the Brazilian Cerrado. Longistylus ygapema n. sp. is recognized by the male palp with a globose bulb and a slender embolus, two times longer the palpal tibia, slightly curved retrolaterally and with no keels.

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