The Museum of Natural Sciences of Barcelona is the repository of a set of samples of spiders captured during a prolonged period of time in various caves of the Moroccan Atlas. Seventeen species of LepthyphantesMenge, 1866 “sensu lato” were found within this material, ten of them new to science: Lepthyphantes almoravidus Barrientos n. sp., Lepthyphantes biospeleologorum Barrientos n. sp., Lepthyphantes ensiferus Barrientos n. sp., Lepthyphantes fadriquei Barrientos n. sp., Lepthyphantes imazigheni Barrientos n. sp., Lepthyphantes lamellatus Barrientos n. sp., Lepthyphantes leknizii Barrientos n. sp., Lepthyphantes sasi Barrientos n. sp., Palliduphantes banderolatus Barrientos n. sp. and Palliduphantes megascapus Barrientos n. sp. We offer the description of the aforementioned species, as well as the description of the unknown male of Lepthyphantes tazaTanasevitch, 2014. We also discuss the affinities found between these and other related Mediterranean species, as well as their possible location within the Micronetinae genera currently described.
How to translate text using browser tools
23 January 2020
The high complexity of Micronetinae Hull, 1920 (Araneae, Linyphiidae) evidenced through ten new cave-dweller species from the Morocco
José Antonio Barrientos,
Neus Brañas,
Jorge Mederos
ACCESS THE FULL ARTICLE
It is not available for individual sale.
This article is only available to subscribers.
It is not available for individual sale.
It is not available for individual sale.
Zoosystema
Vol. 42 • No. 1
January 2020
Vol. 42 • No. 1
January 2020
Atlas Mountains
Lepthyphantes
new species
North of Africa
Palliduphantes
troglobic fauna