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Melloina rickwesti

Panama
IUCN Status

Type Locality : F, Limbo Camp, Gamboa, Panama,

Etymology : For Rick West, student of tarantula taxonomy and biology, and the collector.

11477

Male Activity

The South American spider genus Melloina Brignoli, 1985 is reviewed. The type species, Melloina gracilis (Schenkel, 1953) is redescribed and a new species M. rickwesti is named from Panama. G Mygalomorphae, Paratropididae, Melloina, taxonomy, Venezuela, Panama
Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43: 819-825

Habitat and Type Locality