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Issue: Vol. 4205 No. 4: 8 Dec. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-12-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4205.4.8
Page range: 395–400
Abstract views: 51
PDF downloaded: 1

Description of a new species of the Afrotropical spider genus Afroneutria (Araneae, Ctenidae)

Instituto Butantan, Laboratório Especial de Coleções Zoológicas, Av. Vital Brasil, 1500, Butantã, São Paulo, CEP 05503-000, Brazil.
Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium.
Araneae Arachnida taxonomy systematics Tanzania

Abstract

A species of the Afrotropical spider genus Afroneutria is newly described. Afroneutria tanga sp. nov is endemic to Tanzania, southeast Africa, and can be distinguished from the remaining species of the genus by the retrolateral excavation of the embolus. An identification key for all Afroneutria species is presented.

 

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