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Issue: Vol. 4323 No. 1: 20 Sept. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-09-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4323.1.9
Page range: 119–124
Abstract views: 85
PDF downloaded: 54

A new species of the endemic South African spider genus Austrachelas (Araneae: Gallieniellidae) and first description of the male of A. bergi

Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of the Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa
Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of the Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa
Araneae Gallieniellidae

Abstract

The Gallieniellidae is a small family of ground-dwelling gnaphosoid spiders with a Gondwanan distribution, currently including 10 genera and 55 species (World Spider Catalog 2017). The composition of the group remains unresolved, as different phylogenies have either supported (Platnick 2002; Haddad et al. 2009) or disputed (Ramírez 2014; Wheeler et al. in press) its monophyly.

 

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