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Issue: Vol. 1326 No. 1: 2 Oct. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-10-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1326.1.5
Page range: 45–53
Abstract views: 34
PDF downloaded: 2

First record of the Mecicobothriidae Holmberg from Brazil, with a description of a new species of Mecicobothrium (Araneae, Mygalomorphae)

Laboratório de Artrópodes, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brasil, 1500, 05503-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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
Laboratório de Zoologia, Fundação Universidade Regional de Blumenau (FURB), Bloco T, sala 206, Rua Antônio da Veiga, 140, 89012-900, Blumenau, SC, Brazil
Arachnida Atlantic forest new record Mecicobothrium baccai n. sp. spiders

Abstract

A new species of the genus Mecicobothrium is described, M. baccai n. sp., from Blumenau, State of Santa Catarina. This is the first record of the family Mecicobothriidae in Brazil.

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