On the Chilean spiders of the family Prodidomidae (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea), with a revision of the genus Moreno Mello-Leitão

Title Variants

Alternative: Chilean Prodidomidae

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 3499

By

Platnick, Norman I.

Shadab, Mohammad Umar
Sorkin, Louis N.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, NY American Museum of Natural History c2005

Notes

Title from caption.

"November 29, 2005."

"Although no members of the spider family Prodidomidae have previously been described from Chile, that country has a substantial, and largely endemic, prodidomid fauna. The Argentine genus Moreno Mello-Leitão is transferred from the Gnaphosidae to the Prodidomidae. Moreno was previously known only from the female holotype of its type species, but two additional species from Argentina and three from Chile are newly described, including the first known males of the genus. Three new genera are described: Chileomma, containing seven new six-eyed species from northern and central Chile; Chilongius, containing five new species from northern Chile; and Chileuma, containing three new species from northern and central Chile. A newly discovered feature on the tarsal claws is hypothesized to be a synapomorphy uniting Moreno and Chilongius with the other South American tricongiine Theuminae"--P. [1].

Subjects

Arachnida , Argentina , Chile , Classification , Moreno (Spider) , Prodidomidae , Spiders

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.3499, 2005

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0082(2005)499[0001:OTCSOT]2.0.CO;2
OCLC: 62394724