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Seem like we have another one TOW established - Arthropoda Scientia the old name spoiled...
The same issue 1 also contain ar articlr with the description of a new species of genus Thrixopelma:
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G. Schmidt & J.- P. Rudloff (2010) Trixopelma lagunas sp. n. eine bisher unbekannte Vogelspinnenart aus Peru (Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). Arthropoda Scientia 1(1).
Bertani, R. in prep. On the genus Lasiodora C. L. Koch 1850 (Araneae, Theraphosidae).
The genus Lasiodora comprises the largest spiders of Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest and is known for naturalists at least since 1641 when the Dutchman Albert Eckhout illustrated one specimen in Pernambuco, Brazil. It is one of the older theraphosid genera, being derived from the division of the genus Mygale and included formerly six species. Ausserer, Bertkau, Thorell, Simon and Pocock described several new species, and in 1901 Pocock choose as type species L. klugi, from Bahia, Brazil and transferred several species for other new genera proposed by him. Other authors such as Strand, Chamberlin and Mello-Leitão contributed describing many new species. After the synonymy of Crypsidromus with Lasiodora in 1996, the genus has now 38 species and one subspecies, the majority described for Brazil (24). The genus is close to Vitalius, Nhandu and Proshapalopus, differing by the presence of stridulatory bristles on the prolateral coxae of legs I-IV. In this study, six species are considered valid, all them distributed only in Brazil: L. isabellina (synonyms: L. benedeni Bertkau, L. curtior Chamberlin, L. differens Chamberlin, L. cristata Mello-Leitão, L. difficilis Mello-Leitão and L. mariannae Mello-Leitão), L. itabunae Mello-Leitão, L. subcanens Mello-Leitão, L. parahybana Mello-Leitão and L. klugi C. L. Koch. A new species was detected and is described. L. lakoi Mello-Leitão belongs to the genus Megaphobema and L. spinipes Ausserer to Theraphosa. L. sternalis Mello-Leitão is a synonym of Acanthoscurria gomesiana Mello-Leitão. The following species are considered nomina dubia, since the types could not be located and the descriptions are insuficient for allowing identification: L. acanthognatha Mello-Leitão, L. boliviana (Simon), L. citharacantha Mello-Leitão, L. cryptostigma Mello-Leitão, L. dolichosterna Mello-Leitão, L. dulcicola Mello-Leitão, L. erythrocythara Mello-Leitão, L. fallax (Bertkau), L. fracta Mello-Leitão, L. moreni (Holmberg), L. pantherina (Keyserling), L. pleoplectra Mello-Leitão, L. saeva (Walckenaer) and L. striatipes (Ausserer). Species from Central America and Venezuela will be transferred to other genera, mainly to Hapalopus Ausserer.
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