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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Lourenco WR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5674185 | biostudies-other | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
ZooKeys 20171023 711
Further studies on new specimens of the rare genus <i>Physoctonus</i> Mello-Leitão, 1934, lead to the description of a third new species. Until now only <i>Physoctonus debilis</i> (C. L. Koch, 1840) and <i>Physoctonus striatus</i> Esposito et al., 2017, were known from sites located in the caatingas of the north-east region of Brazil. The new species of <i>Physoctonus</i> was collected by the French arachnologist J. Vellard in the Campos do Pará during his field trips back to the 1920/1930, and ...[more]