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Issue: Vol. 4238 No. 1: 2 Mar. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-03-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4238.1.7
Page range: 97–108
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Description of Califorctenus (Cteninae, Ctenidae, Araneae), a new spider genus from Mexico

Laboratorio de Aracnología y Entomología, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR), Instituto Politécnico Nacional 195, Playa Palo de Santa Rita Sur, La Paz, Baja California Sur, México.
San Diego Natural History Museum, 1788 El Prado, San Diego, CA 92101.
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Biologia, Museu de Zoologia, Rua Charles Darwin s/n, Bloco N - Cx Postal 6109, 13.083-863, Campinas, SP, Brasil. Bill and Maria Peck Research Fellow, Arachnology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Laboratorio de Aracnología y Entomología, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR), Instituto Politécnico Nacional 195, Playa Palo de Santa Rita Sur, La Paz, Baja California Sur, México.
Araneae taxonomy new species Baja California Sur

Abstract

Califorctenus gen. nov. (Araneae: Ctenidae) a new genus and a new species (Califorctenus cacachilensis sp. nov.) from the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico are described and illustrated. Califorctenus gen. nov. can be diagnosed by the morphology of the male palp, with embolus cylindrical and elongated, locking lobes of embolus positioned retrolaterally and the cup-shaped and elongated median apophysis.

 

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