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Issue: Vol. 4966 No. 5: 6 May 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-05-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4966.5.3
Page range: 535–549
Abstract views: 166
PDF downloaded: 11

Description of four new species of the spider genus Euryopis Menge, 1868, with new records from Brazil (Araneae, Theridiidae, Hadrotarsinae)

Laboratório de Diversidade e Sistemática de Arachnida (LaDiSA). Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS). Av. Unisinos, 950, Cristo Rei, 93022-000 São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia – UNISINOS. Av. Unisinos, 950, Cristo Rei, 93022-000 São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Laboratório de Diversidade e Sistemática de Arachnida (LaDiSA). Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS). Av. Unisinos, 950, Cristo Rei, 93022-000 São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia – UNISINOS. Av. Unisinos, 950, Cristo Rei, 93022-000 São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Laboratório de Diversidade e Sistemática de Arachnida (LaDiSA). Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS). Av. Unisinos, 950, Cristo Rei, 93022-000 São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Araneae Bolivia cobweb spiders Neotropical taxonomy

Abstract

The spider genus Euryopis Menge, 1868 (Theridiidae) currently comprises 76 described species worldwide and only two described species from Brazil and none for Bolivia. In this paper four new species of Euryopis from Brazil and Bolivia are described and illustrated: Euryopis candiota n. sp.; Euryopis nasuta n. sp.; Euryopis catarinensis n. sp. all from Brazil and Euryopis boliviensis n. sp. from Bolivia. New records from Brazil are provided for E. camis Levi, 1963 and E. spinifera O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895.

 

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