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Issue: Vol. 5523 No. 1: 14 Oct. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-10-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5523.1.4
Page range: 70-82
Abstract views: 192
PDF downloaded: 10

Four new species of Crinopseudoa (Araneae: Corinnidae) from West Africa

SpiDiverse; Biodiversity Inventory for Conservation npo (BINCO); 3380 Walmersumstraat; Glabbeek; Belgium; Centre for Ecology and Conservation; College of Life and Environmental Sciences; University of Exeter; Penryn Campus; Penryn; Cornwall; TR10 9FE; U.K
Insect Ecology Group; Department of Zoology; University of Cambridge; Downing Street; Cambridge; CB2 3EJ; United Kingdom; Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke); Latokartanonkaari 9; 00790 Helsinki; Finland
William R. Tolbert; Jr. College of Agriculture and Forestry; Fendall Campus; University of Liberia; Montserrado County; Liberia
Department of Earth; Ocean; and Ecological Sciences; University of Liverpool; Liverpool; L3 5DA; United Kingdom
Royal Museum for Central Africa; Leuvensesteenweg 13; B-3080 Tervuren; Belgium
Araneae Sac spider rainforest leaf litter Guinea Liberia Ivory Coast

Abstract

Four new species of Crinopseudoa are described from West Africa. Crinopseudoa kru sp. nov. (male, female) and C. sinoensis sp. nov. (male, female) were collected as part of a new sustainable oil palm project in southern Liberia, C. nimba sp. nov. (male, female) from expeditions to Mount Nimba in Guinea, and C. elisabethae sp. nov. (male) from historic museum material from Ivory Coast. An updated key to species is presented as we increase the number of known species of Crinopseudoa from 11 to 15.

 

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