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Issue: Vol. 1202 No. 1: 15 May. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-05-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1202.1.3
Page range: 33–37
Abstract views: 40
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species of Neocteniza Pocock 1895 (Araneae, Idiopidae) from Brazil

Laboratório de Imunoquímica, Instituto Butantan. Av. Vital Brazil, 1500, CEP 05503-900, São Paulo-SP, Brazil
Laboratório de Imunoquímica, Instituto Butantan. Av. Vital Brazil, 1500, CEP 05503-900, São Paulo-SP, Brazil Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo. Rua do Matão, Travessa 14, 321, CEP 05422-970, São Paulo-SP, Brazil
Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo. Rua do Matão, Travessa 14, 321, CEP 05422-970, São Paulo-SP, Brazil
Araneae taxonomy systematics Mygalomorphae Brazil

Abstract

Neocteniza myriamae n. sp. is newly described from Brazil. This species belongs to the australis group, which contains species with a small apical hematodocha on the male palpal bulb, with a thicker embolus, and without an apophysis on the apical sclerite. The new species is distinguished from N. australis and N. toba by the male embolus, which is thicker in its middle portion. From N. chancani, it can be distinguished by the larger size, elongated femur I, and especially by the presence of one conical keel and two parallel, well-developed keels on the apical half of the embolus.

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