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Issue: Vol. 4341 No. 4: 2 Nov. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-11-01
DOI: 10.11646/Zootaxa.4341.4.3
Page range: 495–508
Abstract views: 71
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Revision of the Venezuelan spider genus Stenosfemuraia González-Sponga, with new generic and specific synonymies (Araneae, Pholcidae)

Alexander Koenig Research Museum of Zoology, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany.
Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay - Apdo. 4579, Aragua 2101A, Venezuela.
Araneae Pholcidae Venezuela Stenosfemuraia taxonomy

Abstract

The Venezuelan genus Stenosfemuraia González-Sponga, 1998 is revised, with redescriptions of its three named species: S. parva González-Sponga, 1998 (type species); S. cuadrata González-Sponga, 2005; and S. pilosa (González-Sponga, 2005) n. comb. The latter species was originally described as Codazziella pilosa, and six years later again as Chichiriviche costanero González-Sponga, 2011 (n. syn.). The monotypic genera Codazziella González-Sponga, 2005 and Chichiriviche González-Sponga, 2011 are thus newly synonymized with Stenosfemuraia. The genus appears restricted to the Cordillera de la Costa region where the spiders occupy near-ground microhabitats in medium to high elevation forests.

 

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