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Issue: Vol. 4370 No. 1: 9 Jan. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-01-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4370.1.4
Page range: 57–66
Abstract views: 84
PDF downloaded: 1

On the spider genus Syspira Simon, 1895 (Araneae: Miturgidae) in the Caribbean: four new species from Dominican Republic

Laboratório Especial de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brazil, 1500, Butantã, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, CEP 05503-900
Laboratório Especial de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brazil, 1500, Butantã, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, CEP 05503-900
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Departamento de Zoologia, Laboratório de Aracnologia. Av. Perimetral, 1901, Terra Firme, Belém, Pará, Brazil, CEP 66077-830
Araneae Dionychia Caribbean spides taxonomy

Abstract

Four new species of Syspira Simon, 1895 are described: Syspira cimitarra sp. nov., Syspira jimmyi sp. nov., Syspira medialuna sp. nov. and Syspira agujas sp. nov., all endemic in the Dominican Republic.

 

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