Buitinga, Huber, 2003
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publication ID |
https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1096-3642.2003.00053.x |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9E7787BC-FF81-4148-E3B2-F952FA36F8E4 |
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Carolina |
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scientific name |
Buitinga |
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gen. nov. |
BUITINGA View in CoL View at ENA N. GEN.
Type species. Buitinga kadogo n. sp.
Etymology. Derived from the Swahili for ‘large spider’ ( bui) and ‘vibrate’ ( tinga). It refers to the vibrating and whirling movements that many long-legged pholcids make when disturbed. Gender feminine.
Diagnosis. Long-legged, 6-eyed pholcids with globular or elongate opisthosoma and variable size (total length ~1.5–3). Easily distinguished from other genera by the scape on the epigynum (e.g. Figs 56 View Figures 51–57 , 62 View Figures 58–63 , 69 View Figures 64–70 ); only ‘Spermophora’ berlandi has a similar scape ( Fig. 266 View Figures 262–267 ) that is here considered a convergence. Also distinguished by the very distal position of the dorsal palpal trichobothrium (e.g. Figs 59 View Figures 58–63 , 86 View Figures 85–91 , 219 View Figures 218–220 ). The males of
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