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Issue: Vol. 363 No. 1: 21 Nov. 2003
Type: Article
Published: 2003-11-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.363.1.1
Page range: 1–8
Abstract views: 35
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species of Pherania Strand, 1942 from southern Brazil (Arachnida: Opiliones: Gonyleptidae)

Departamento de Invertebrados, Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20.940-040, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, BRAZIL
Opiliones Harvestmen Neotropical Atlantic Forest Santa Catarina Pachylinae Antetriceras

Abstract

Pherania giupponii sp. nov. is herein described from a coastal island in Santa Catarina state, southern Brazil. The genus Pherania Strand, 1942, was hitherto monotypic and the type species, Pherania pygmaea (Sørensen, 1932), is known from the nearby mainland. A new diagnosis is given to Pherania and the geographic distribution of the two species is illustrated on a map.

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