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Issue: Vol. 1255 No. 1: 10 Jul. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-07-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1255.1.3
Page range: 29–35
Abstract views: 56
PDF downloaded: 3

New lyssomanine and hisponine jumping spiders from Africa (Araneae: Salticidae)

Departments of Zoology and Botany and Centre for Biodiversity Research, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada
Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada
Araneae Salticidae Goleba Massagris Tomocyrba Hisponinae Lyssomaninae jumping spider new species

Abstract

Three new species of salticid spider from Africa are described and illustrated. These are Goleba lyra, new species, a lyssomanine from Madagascar, Massagris schisma, new species, a hisponine from South Africa, and Tomocyrba andasibe, new species, a hisponine from Madagascar.

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