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Title: A new troglomorphic Metagonia Simon 1893 (Araneae, Pholcidae) from Brazil
Keywords: Araneae
Pholcidae
Issue Date: 19-Dec-2011
Publisher: Magnolia Press
Citation: MACHADO, E.; FERREIRA, R. L.; BRESCOVIT, A. D. A new troglomorphic Metagonia Simon 1893 (Araneae, Pholcidae) from Brazil. Zootaxa, Auckland, v. 3135, n. 1, p. 59-62, Dec. 2011. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3135.1.4.
Abstract: The genus Metagonia Simon 1893 currently has 81 species widely distributed in South and Central America (Platnick, 2011). The majority of species are leaf-dwellers (Gertsch 1986; Huber 1997; 2004; Huber & Schütte 2009) but some inhabit leaf-litter (Huber et al. 2005) or live in caves (Gertsch 1986; Gertsch & Peck 1992; Huber 1998; Pérez González & Huber 1999). Three species were described from cave environments as eyeless troglobites: M. bellavista Gertsch & Peck 1992 and M. reederi Gertsch & Peck 1992 from the Galapagos Islands and M. debrasi Pérez González & Huber 1999 from Cuba. These species may be local relicts from extinct groups (Gertsch & Peck 1992, Pérez González & Huber 1999). Huber (2000) placed these eyeless species in his ‘group 4’.
URI: https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3135.1.4
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