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Issue: Vol. 5692 No. 2: 12 Sept. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-09-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5692.2.10
Page range: 381-392
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Taxonomic notes on Paratobias F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900: updated diagnosis and a new species description (Araneae, Thomisidae, Stephanopinae)

Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Escola de Ciências da Saúde e da Vida; Museu de Ciências e Tecnologia; Laboratório de Aracnologia; Porto Alegre; RS; BRAZIL.
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Escola de Ciências da Saúde e da Vida; Museu de Ciências e Tecnologia; Laboratório de Aracnologia; Porto Alegre; RS; BRAZIL.
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Escola de Ciências da Saúde e da Vida; Museu de Ciências e Tecnologia; Laboratório de Aracnologia; Porto Alegre; RS; BRAZIL.
Araneae Biodiversity Central America crab spiders genus revision

Abstract

The recently revalidated genus Paratobias has its diagnosis and description updated in the present paper. The male of P. championi is described for the first time, and the new species P. invictus sp. nov. is described based on both sexes. New distribution records for the genus are provided.

 

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How to Cite

Machado, M., Guzati, C. & Teixeira, R.A. (2025) Taxonomic notes on Paratobias F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900: updated diagnosis and a new species description (Araneae, Thomisidae, Stephanopinae). Zootaxa, 5692 (2), 381–392. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5692.2.10