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Type: Article
Published: 2014-02-11
Page range: 377–386
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A new troglobitic species of the spider genus Tengella Dahl
(Araneae, Tengellidae) from Chiapas, Mexico

Colección Nacional de Arácnidos (CNAN), Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 3er Circuito exterior s/n. Apartado Postal 70-153, C. P. 04510, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal, México.
Colección Nacional de Arácnidos (CNAN), Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 3er Circuito exterior s/n. Apartado Postal 70-153, C. P. 04510, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal, México.
Tengella ecribellate taxonomy troglomorphic Chiapas

Abstract

A new species of troglobitic spider of the genus Tengella Dahl is described from Mexico: Tengella kalebi new species, from a limestone cave in Chiapas, Mexico. The species is described on the basis of adult male and females. This is the fifth species described for the genus Tengella, the third species described from Mexico, the first species that has notable troglomorphic modifications, and the first ecribellate Tengella species.