Five new species and novel descriptions of opposed sexes of four species of the spider genus Attacobius (Araneae: Corinnidae)

JosÉ moisÉs B Pereira-Filho; Regiane Saturnino; Alexandre B Bonaldo

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4462.2.3

Five new species and novel descriptions of opposed sexes of four species of the spider genus Attacobius (Araneae: Corinnidae)

Zootaxa. 2018 Aug 27;4462(2):211-228. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4462.2.3.

Authors

JosÉ moisÉs B Pereira-Filho¹, Regiane Saturnino, Alexandre B Bonaldo

Affiliation

¹ Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi-MPEG, Coordenação de Zoologia, Laboratório de Aracnologia, Avenida Perimetral, 1901, Terra Firme, CEP: 66077-830, Belém, Pará, Brazil Programa de Pós-graduação em Zoologia-Universidade Federal do Pará / Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. user@example.com.

PMID: 30314042
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4462.2.3

Abstract

Five new Brazilian species of the spider genus Attacobius Mello-Leitão, 1925 are described: A. demiguise n. sp. (based on male and female) and A. carimbo n. sp. (male), both from State of Pará; A. thalitae n. sp. (male) from the State of Minas Gerais; A. lauricae n. sp. (male) from State of Tocantins; and A. tremembe n. sp. (female) from State of Piauí. The males of A. luederwaldti (Mello-Leitão, 1923) and A. verhaaghi Bonaldo Brescovit, 1998, and the females of A. uiriri Bonaldo Brescovit, 2005 and A. blakei Bonaldo Brescovit, 2005, are described for the first time. Additionally, new records of A. attarum (Roewer, 1935), A. carranca Bonaldo Brescovit, 2005, A. kitae Bonaldo Brescovit, 2005 and A. tucurui Bonaldo Brescovit, 2005 are given.

Keywords: Araneae, Dionycha, Corinninae, Attacobiini, taxonomy, Neotropical region.

MeSH terms

Animal Distribution*
Animals
Brazil
Female
Male
Spiders*