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Issue: Vol. 4915 No. 1: 20 Jan. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-01-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4915.1.8
Page range: 119–126
Abstract views: 95
PDF downloaded: 12

New species of the monotypic thiratoscirtine genera Ajaraneola and Nimbarus (Araneae: Salticidae: Aelurillini: Thiratoscirtina)

Department of Ecology, University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest, Rottenbiller u. 50, Budapest, 1077, Hungary
Departments of Zoology and Botany and Beaty Biodiversity Museum, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada
Araneae Africa jumping spider new data Uganda Cameroon

Abstract

Two new species of the currently monotypic thiratoscirtine genera Ajaraneola Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011 and Nimbarus Rollard & Wesołowska, 2002 are described from Uganda and Cameroon: Ajaraneola pajakwandy sp. nov. (male) and Nimbarus nimbus sp. nov. (male), respectively. With the new species, previous diagnoses of the genera are re-evaluated and refined. The range of each genus is extended considerably: Ajaraneola is reported from Uganda and Nimbarus from Cameroon for the first time.

 

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