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Issue: Vol. 2919 No. 1: 15 Jun. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-06-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2919.1.4
Page range: 60–68
Abstract views: 44
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Seven new species of Enna (Araneae: Trechaleidae) from Central and South America

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Faculdade de Biociências, Museu de Ciências e Tecnologia (MCTP), Laboratório de Aracnologia, Prédio 40, Sala 125, Av. Ipiranga 6681, 90619-900, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Faculdade de Biociências, Museu de Ciências e Tecnologia (MCTP), Laboratório de Aracnologia, Prédio 40, Sala 125, Av. Ipiranga 6681, 90619-900, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Araneae taxonomy morphology Neotropical region

Abstract

Seven new species of the spider genus Enna O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897 from Central and South America are described and illustrated for the first time: Enna carinata sp. nov. (male, Panama), E. triste sp. nov. (male, Venezuela), E. caricoi sp. nov. (male, Colombia), E. venezuelana sp. nov. (female, Venezuela), E. silvae sp. nov. (female, Peru), E. frijoles sp. nov. (female, Panama) and E. zurqui sp. nov. (female, Costa Rica). A new record of Enna estebanensis (Simon, 1898) is reported from Ecuador.

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