Author : Norman I. Platnick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (898 download)
Book Synopsis A New Goblin Spider Genus of the Zyngoonops Group from Costa Rica, with Notes on Coxapopha (Araneae, Oonopidae) by : Norman I. Platnick
Download or read book A New Goblin Spider Genus of the Zyngoonops Group from Costa Rica, with Notes on Coxapopha (Araneae, Oonopidae) written by Norman I. Platnick and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new genus, Hexapopha, is described for a group of species from Costa Rica that resemble those of Coxapopha Platnick in having an elevated carapace and heavily sclerotized, highly modified male endites but differ in retaining six eyes, lacking leg spines, and having no female genitalic scape. Xestaspis reimoseri Fage is transferred to Hexapopha as the type species, its female is described for the first time, and three new species (H. hone, H. jimenez, and H. osa) are described. Dysderina caeca Birabén, from Argentina, is transferred to Coxapopha.