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Issue: Vol. 4845 No. 4: 4 Sept. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-09-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4845.4.6
Page range: 565–575
Abstract views: 55
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Four new species of the genus Novalena Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 (Araneae: Agelenidae) from southeastern Mexican montane forests and first record of ocular anomaly in the genus

Colección de Arácnidos del Sureste de México, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Unidad Tapachula, Carretera Antiguo Aeropuerto km. 2.5, C. P. 30700, Tapachula, Chiapas, México.
Colección de Arácnidos del Sureste de México, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Unidad Tapachula, Carretera Antiguo Aeropuerto km. 2.5, C. P. 30700, Tapachula, Chiapas, México.
Colección de Arácnidos del Sureste de México, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Unidad Tapachula, Carretera Antiguo Aeropuerto km. 2.5, C. P. 30700, Tapachula, Chiapas, México.
Araneae Chiapas Biosphere Reserves taxonomy tropical montane cloud forest

Abstract

Four new species of the spider genus Novalena Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 are described: N. bola sp. nov., N. mayae sp. nov., N. padillai sp. nov., and N. zootaxa sp. nov. All species were collected in montane forests in Chiapas, Mexico, and three of them occur in sympatry across their distribution range.

 

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