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Issue: Vol. 5397 No. 2: 4 Jan. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-01-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5397.2.8
Page range: 273-282
Abstract views: 140
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Notes on a small caponiid spider collection (Araneae: Caponiidae) from Mexico, with the description of a new species of Aamunops Galán-Sánchez & Álvarez-Padilla, 2022

Laboratorio de Aracnología y Entomología; Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste S.C.; La Paz; 23096; Baja California Sur; México
Laboratorio de Aracnología y Entomología; Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste S.C.; La Paz; 23096; Baja California Sur; México
Araneae taxonomy Neotropic Synspermiata Nopinae

Abstract

A new species of the spider family Caponiidae, Aamunops kalebi sp. nov., is described from Chiapas, Mexico. Additionally, we provide new distributional or natural history and morphological remarks of three caponiids collected from South and Southern Mexico: Roddenberryus sargi (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899), R. spock Sánchez-Ruiz & Bonaldo, 2023, and Nops campeche Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018.

 

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