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Issue: Vol. 5448 No. 2: 10 May 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-05-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5448.2.3
Page range: 212-224
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On three species of the genus Habrocestum Simon, 1876 (Araneae: Salticidae: Hasariini) from India

Centre for Animal Taxonomy and Ecology; Department of Zoology; Christ College; Irinjalakuda; Kerala; India (Affiliated to University of Calicut)
Department of Anatomy; Saveetha Medical College & Hospital; Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences; Saveetha University; Chennai 602105; Tamil Nadu; India
Centre for Animal Taxonomy and Ecology; Department of Zoology; Christ College; Irinjalakuda; Kerala; India (Affiliated to University of Calicut)
Araneae ground spiders Kerala Meghalaya new species new synonym primary forest Western Ghats

Abstract

Two new species of the ground-dwelling jumping spider genus Habrocestum Simon, 1876 from the wet evergreen forests of the southern Western Ghats, India are described: H. benjamin sp. nov. (♂♀) and H. swaminathan sp. nov. (♂♀). Furthermore, H. emanasakgrensis Kadam & Tripathi, 2023 is synonymized with Chinattus validus (Xie, Peng & Kim, 1993) syn. nov.. Diagnoses, digital illustrations, morphological descriptions, natural history notes and discussion are provided.

 

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