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Issue: Vol. 5566 No. 2: 8 Jan. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-01-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5566.2.1
Page range: 201-242
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Revealing the identity of Josa chazaliae (Simon, 1897) (Araneae: Anyphaenidae): new species and the highest altitude record for a spider in South America

División Aracnología; Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia” CONICET; Avenida Ángel Gallardo 470; CP: 1405DJR; C.A.B.A.; Buenos Aires; Argentina; Grupo de Investigación Biodiversidad del Caribe; Departamento de Biología; Universidad del Atlántico; Barranquilla; Colombia; Grupo de Estudios en Sistemática y Conservación; Universidad del Atlántico; Barranquilla; Colombia; Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental; Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Universidad de Buenos Aires; Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires; Argentina
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Paraguay; Sucursal 1 Campus U.N.A.; C.C. 19.004; 111421 CDP; Central XI; San Lorenzo; Paraguay
Departamento de Biología; Universidad del Atlántico; Barranquilla; Colombia
División Aracnología; Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia” CONICET; Avenida Ángel Gallardo 470; CP: 1405DJR; C.A.B.A.; Buenos Aires; Argentina
Araneae Amaurobioidinae lectotypification morphology highest elevation Páramos Coastal Mountain formation

Abstract

We examined the type series of Josa chazaliae (Simon, 1897) from Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, composed of three females of two different species. Herein, we propose a lectotype for Josa chazaliae, redescribe the female, and describe the male of this species for the first time. A new species, Josa samaria sp. nov., is proposed based on a female paralectotype of Josa chazaliae. Three additional species, all based on both sexes are described: Josa nadineae sp. nov., Josa berlandi sp. nov., and Josa olimpica sp. nov. All species studied in this work occur in Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the highest coastal mountain system in the world. We compared our geographical data with the records of spiders available in GBIF, the MACN-Ar database along with unpublished records for the described Josa species. The results indicate that the presence of Josa olimpica at altitudes of at least 5500 masl represents the highest record for a spider in South America, and apparently the highest record for any spider in the Western Hemisphere.

 

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