New species of smiley-faced spider Spintharus (Araneae, Theridiidae) from Brazil, and comments on unobserved diversity in South America
Spintharus is a genus of spiders that contained only two species until 2018 when it was demonstrated that a ‘widespread’ species was instead composed of multiple short-range endemics. This note redescribes Spintharus gracilis Keyserling and describes a new species of Spinth...
Main Authors: | Gabriel A. LeMay, Ingi Agnarsson |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Pensoft Publishers
2020-02-01
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Series: | ZooKeys |
Online Access: | https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/47563/download/pdf/ |
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