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Issue: Vol. 2158 No. 1: 15 Jul. 2009
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2009-07-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2158.1.6
Page range: 65–68
Abstract views: 38
PDF downloaded: 1

The first Myrmecotypus O. P.-Cambridge (Araneae: Corinnidae) from Argentina: description of Myrmecotypus iguazu new species

CONICET, Diversidad Animal I, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Av. Vélez Sarsfield 299, X5000JJC Córdoba, Argentina
Biología de los Invertebrados, Facultad de Ciencia Exactas y Naturales y Agrimensura, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Av. Libertad 5470, W3404AAS Corrientes, Argentina
Araneae Corinnidae

Abstract

The Castianeirinae genus Myrmecotypus was described by O. Pickard-Cambridge (1894) and currently includes eight species. All of them, except the atypical M. lineatus (Emerton 1909) (only record from USA), occur in the Neotropical region (known from Mexico to Panamá), Panamá being the southern most representative distribution of genus. Reiskind (1969) carried out the revision of the subfamily Castianeirinae Reiskind 1969 from North and Central America, concluding that much more study of more extensive collections will be needed to clarify the origin and distribution of South American species of this subfamily.

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