Espécies novas de Otiothops e Fernandezina do norte do Brasil (Araneae, Palpimanidae)

Abstract

ABSTRACT. New species of Otiothops and Fernandezina from northern Brazil. Otiothops lajeado sp. nov. and Fernandezina saira sp. nov., respectively from the states of Tocantins and Amazonas, Brazil, are described.

New species of Otiothopinae (Araneae: Palpimanidae) from Colombia

“…Platnick 1975Platnick , 1978, while others are known from relatively poor descriptions and original illustrations. Over the last 30 years, new species have been described from Argentina (Grismado and Ramírez 2002;Grismado 2008), Brazil (Brescovit and Bonaldo 1993;Ramírez and Grismado 1996;Platnick et al 1999;Buckup and Ott 2004;Brescovit et al 2007;Ott and Ott 2014;Castro et al 2015), Chile (Platnick et al 1999;Wunderlich 1999), Bolivia (Piacentini et al 2013 ), Cuba (Cala-Riquelme and Agnarsson 2014), Guyana (Grismado 2002), Venezuela (Wunderlich 1999) and a new genus Notiothops was described from Chile (Platnick et al 1999). However, due to the difficulties of field collection, the high diversity and the existing regional gaps in the Neotropics, it is likely that a large part of the Neotropical otiothopine fauna remains undescribed (Platnick 1975;Platnick et al 1999;Castro et al 2015).…”

On Levymanus, a remarkable new spider genus from Israel, with notes on the Chediminae (Araneae, Palpimanidae)

“…n. possesses a thoracic fovea divided into two parts (A3); all other palpimanids have an entire, short fovea that may be longitudinal, transverse, pit-like, or anchor-shaped (Platnick 1975, figs 10, 80; Forster and Platnick 1984, figs 269, 282; Dippenaar-Schoeman and Jocqué 1997, figs 100a, 100b; Platnick et al 1999, figs 25, 63, 67; Buckup and Ott 2004, figs 1, 2). A bipartite thoracic fovea is characteristic for members of the Stenochilidae, the sister group of palpimanids, but stenochilids possess foveal sulci located longitudinally (cf.…”