Title

A new troglomorphic species of Harmonicon (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Dipluridae) from Pará, Brazil, with notes on the genus

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Publication Date

March 2014

Keywords

Pequiá cave (Floresta Nacional de Carajás, Parauapebas, Pará, Brazil)

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Article

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AuthorsDenis Rafael Pedroso 1,†, Renner Luiz Cerqueira Baptista 2,‡ 1Laboratório de Aracnologia, Departamento de Invertebrados, Museu Nacional / Universidade do Brasil (UFRJ). Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20.940-040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil 2Laboratório de Diversidade de Aracnídeos, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade do Brasil (UFRJ) †http://zoobank.org/E67DAD82-2E69-4E76-B4F0-7BA09E13A68F ‡http://zoobank.org/CF514365-072A-4248-AF23-C112FC360305 Corresponding author: Denis Rafael Pedroso (drbpedroso@gmail.com) Academic editor: C. Rheims AbstractA new species of HarmoniconF. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896 (Araneae, Dipluridae) is described, from a medium-sized lateritic cave in Parauapebas, Pará, Brazil. The male holotype and only specimen known of H. cerberussp. n. was found near the entrance of Pequiá cave. This taxon is the fourth species described and the southernmost record for the genus. The new species displays some troglomorphic characteristics, such as reduction and merging of the posterior median and both pairs of lateral eyes and pale yellow to light brown coloration. Both characters are diagnostic when compared to the normal separated eyes and reddish to dark brown of other Harmonicon species. Other diagnostic characteristics are isolated, long, rigid setae distal to the lyra and the shape of the copulatory bulb. This is the second troglomorphic mygalomorph species from Brazil and the first from the Amazonian region. KeywordsAmazonia, biodiversity, cave, Diplurinae, Neotropics, taxonomy CitationPedroso DR, Baptista RLC (2014) A new troglomorphic species of Harmonicon (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Dipluridae) from Pará, Brazil, with notes on the genus. ZooKeys 389: 77-88. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.389.6693 (C) 2014 Denis Rafael Pedroso. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Open Access See Extended description for more information.

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K26-00128

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"A new troglomorphic species of Harmonicon (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Dipluridae) from Pará, Brazil, with notes on the genus" (2014). KIP Articles. 3634.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/kip_articles/3634