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Issue: Vol. 2690 No. 1: 29 Nov. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-11-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2690.1.2
Page range: 19–31
Abstract views: 30
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of the sun-spider genus Mummucia (Arachnida: Solifugae: Mummucidae) from Piauí, northeastern Brazil

Universidade Federal do Piauí, Campus Amílcar Ferreira Sobral, BR 343, KM 3.5, Bairro Meladão, s/no. CEP 64800-000, Floriano, PI, Brazil
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Coordenação de Zoologia, Laboratório de Aracnologia, Campus de Pesquisa, Avenida Perimetral, nº 1901. CEP 66040-170, Belém, PA, Brazil
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Coordenação de Zoologia, Laboratório de Aracnologia, Campus de Pesquisa, Avenida Perimetral, nº 1901. CEP 66040-170, Belém, PA, Brazil
Instituto Butantan, Laboratório de Parasitologia, Av. Vital Brazil 1500, CEP 05503-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil Biologia da Relação Patógeno-Hospedeiro, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas da Universidade de São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Universidade Federal do Piauí, Campus da Socopo, Centro de Ciências Agrárias, Departamento de Fitotecnia. CEP 64049-550, Teresina, PI, Brazil
Arachnida taxonomy geometric morphometric analysis solpugid solifugid Caatinga

Abstract

The Brazilian solifuge Mummucia ibirapemussu new species (Solifugae, Mummuciidae) from Serra das Confusões National Park, in the semi-arid Caatinga domain, is herein described, with illustrations and SEM pictures of the main taxonomic characters. Geometrical morphometric analyses were also performed and indicated that this new species can be accurately distinguished from Metacleobis fulvipes regarding the shape of propeltidium.

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