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Trichopelma tostoi

Dominican Republic
IUCN Status

Type Locality : DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. Parque Nacional del Este

Etymology : The specific name is a patronym in honor of amateur arachnologist and wildlife photographer, Antonio Tosto, for his contribution to the knowledge of the spiders of the Dominican Republic.

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Male Activity

A new species of Phrixotrichus Simon, 1889, P. pucara sp. nov., is described and illustrated based on a male from Pucará river, Neuquén province, Argentina. Male can be distinguished from all other species of the genus by the presence of a long strong spine on inner face of prolateral branch of tibial apophysis; also, it differs from P. scrofa (Molina, 1788) and P. vulpinus (Karsch, 1880) by a serrated prolateral keel of the male palpal bulb. Male resembles P. jara Perafán & Pérez-Miles, 2014 but can be distinguished by the uniform color on dorsal cephalothorax and by the palpal organ morphology being wider on the bulb base and embolus shorter and thicker, with the tip of embolus not so directed retrolaterally and prolateral keel bearing a serrated edge with three teeth. Additionally, P. vulpinus is reported for the first time for Argentina along with new distributional data.
Iheringia, Série Zoologia DOI: 10.1590/1678-476620151052252256

Habitat and Type Locality