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Issue: Vol. 5831 No. 2: 15 Jun. 2026
Type: Article
Published: 2026-06-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5831.2.11
Page range: 288-294
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On fork-tailed crab spiders: Two new species of Sidymella Strand, 1942 (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Ecuador

Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad INABIO; Quito; Ecuador; Fundación Waska Amazonía; Vía Río Anzu km 1; Mera; Pastaza; Ecuador; Red de Investigación del Corredor de Conectividad Llanganates-Sangay; Av. Luis A. Martínez y C. Vann Shoote; Mera; Pastaza; Ecuador; Fundación Uru; Quito; Ecuador
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Museu de Ciências e Tecnologia; Laboratório de Aracnologia; Porto Alegre; Brazil
Araneae Andean Chocó Ecuadorian Andes Neotropical Stephanopinae

Abstract

Two new species from the family Thomisidae are described from Ecuador: Sidymella ayahuma sp. nov. from the Andean chocó region in Northwestern Ecuador (♀) and Sidymella malefica sp. nov. (♀) from the Andes region in central Ecuador.

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How to Cite

Díaz-Guevara, D.R. & Machado, M. (2026) On fork-tailed crab spiders: Two new species of Sidymella Strand, 1942 (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Ecuador. Zootaxa, 5831 (2), 288–294. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5831.2.11