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The flattie spiders of the Selenops isopodus species group (Araneae: Selenopidae) with a review of Selenops records from Colombia 

California Academy of Sciences, Department of Entomology, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, CA, 94118, USA.
Grupo de Investigación de en Aracnología & Miriapodología (GAM-UN), Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Bogotá, Colombia.
Pós-graduação em Zoologia. Instituto de Ciências Biológicas. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, CEP 31270-901, Brazil. Grupo de Investigación en Zoología y Ecología. Universidad de Sucre. Sucre, Colombia.
Grupo de Investigación Ecología y Biodiversidad en Ecosistemas Tropicales (EBET), Facultad Ciencias Básicas y Aplicadas, Universidad de la Guajira, Riohacha, Colombia.
Grupo de Investigación en Recursos Naturales, Universidad de Pamplona, Pamplona, Colombia.
California Academy of Sciences, Department of Entomology, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, CA, 94118, USA.
Taxonomy new species synonymy selenopids Colombia South America Caribbean citizen science inaturalist.org Araneae

Abstract

Here we examine the species of the Selenops isopodus species group: S. isopodus Mello-Leitão, 1941, S. arikok Crews, 2011, and S. curazao Alayón, 2001. We describe the female and male of S. bullerengue sp. nov. from Colombia and synonymize S. marilus Corronca, 1998a with S. isopodus, providing diagnoses and complete descriptions of both sexes of S. isopodus. Detailed images and a key to species in the group are provided. The distribution of all selenopid species in Colombia is reviewed using published records, museum specimens, and citizen science data from inaturalist.org.

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