Four new species of the genus Ochyrocera (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae) from iron caves of the state of Minas Gerais, with the description of the third anophtalmic species from Brazil

Autor: Antonio Domingos Brescovit, Robson de Almeida Zampaulo, Leandro Mota Pedroso, Igor Cizauskas
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Subterranean Biology, Vol 41, Iss , Pp 43-68 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1314-2615
DOI: 10.3897/subtbiol.41.72895
Popis: Four new species of the spider genus Ochyrocera Fage, 1912 are described from iron caves in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Here we present the third anophtalmic and depigmented species of the genus, O. dorinha sp. nov., and three other depigmented species: O. monica sp. nov., O. magali sp. nov. and O. rosinha sp. nov. Only O. dorinha sp. nov. and O. rosinha sp. nov. are considered as troglobites due the ocular reduction or anophthalmia and elongated appendages, two troglomorphic features absent in the other species described.
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