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Issue: Vol. 3920 No. 2: 20 Feb. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-02-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3920.2.2
Page range: 249–264
Abstract views: 23
PDF downloaded: 1

Redescription and phylogenetic placement of the Hispaniolan spider genus Lomaita Bryant, 1948 (Araneae, Linyphiidae) 

Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 20052.
Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 20052.
systematics Linyphiinae Neotropical fauna taxonomy

Abstract

The monotypic linyphiid genus Lomaita Bryant 1948 is redescribed. We present an updated description of the male of L. darlingtoni, the first description of the female and data on its natural history and distribution in the Dominican Republic. We provide a hypothesis on the phylogenetic placement of Lomaita based on cladistic analyses of morphological characters.