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Issue: Vol. 3422 No. 1: 14 Aug. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-08-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3422.1.2
Page range: 32–51
Abstract views: 47
PDF downloaded: 1

New species of Chilean Hexathelidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae)

Centro de investigaciones y Servicios Ambientales y Tecnológicos (CISAT), Cuba Instituto Superior de Entomología (INSUE)
Instituto Superior de Entomología (INSUE) Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Instituto Miguel Lillo, Miguel Lillo 205, 4000.S.M.Tucumán, Argentina
Araneae Hexathelidae Mediothele Scotinoecus taxonomy new species Chile

Abstract

Several new species of Hexathelidae Simon (1892) from Chile are described. In Scotinoecus Simon (1892), a new species(S. ruiles) is described using females; a new species (S. major) is proposed for the male previously misidentified as S.cinereopilosus (Simon, 1889), and females are described; the male of S. cinereopilosus is described for the first time. InMediothele, the female of M. australis is described for the first time, as well as five new species (M. minima, M. linares,M. nahuelbuta, M. anae and M. lagos); all are based solely on females from Southern and Central Chile. The known geographic distributions of both genera are increased.

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