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Issue: Vol. 4877 No. 2: 10 Nov. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-11-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4877.2.5
Page range: 311–328
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Six new species of the spider genus Centroctenus Mello-Leitão from the Neotropical region (Ctenidae, Cteninae)

Laboratório Especial de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, Avenida Vital Brasil 1500, CEP 05503-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Pós-graduação em Zoologia. Instituto de Ciências Biológicas. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Belo Horizonte, Brasil. Grupo de Investigación en Zoología y Ecología. Universidad de Sucre. Sucre, Colombia.
Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de Brasília, Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, CEP 70910-900, Brasília, Brazil.
Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva (DEBE), Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), campus São Carlos, Rodovia Washington Luís, Km 235, CEP 13565-905, São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
Arachnida Araneae Brazil Colombia Ecuador systematics taxonomy

Abstract

The species of the genus Centroctenus can be distinguished from other Ctenidae genera by the presence of a long tibiae and the absence of a retrolateral projection of the cymbium in the male palp, and by the presence of a rounded spermathecae in the female epigynum. The composition of this spider genus is herein expanded to eleven Neotropical species, with the description of six new species: Centroctenus dourados sp. n., C. claudia sp. n., C. chalkidisi sp. n., and C. varzea sp. n., from Brazil; and Centroctenus coloso sp. n. from Colombia and Centroctenus alinahui sp. n. from Ecuador. A map with the distribution of all known species in the genus is presented.

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