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      On Levymanus, a remarkable new spider genus from Israel, with notes on the Chediminae (Araneae, Palpimanidae)

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      Spiders, new taxa, taxonomy, Palearctic, South-Western Asia, Near East

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          Levymanus gershomi gen. n. et sp. n., is described from southern Israel. The eye arrangement and structure of the male palp indicate that this genus belongs to Chediminae Simon, 1893. Levymanus gen. n. differs from other chedimine genera by its unusually long and slender legs, an elongate body, a unique shape of the bipartite thoracic fovea, reduced leg scopulae, smaller spinnerets, and other characters, which are presumably apomorphic. We propose two taxonomic changes: 1) based on widely spaced lateral eyes the Western African genus Badia Roewer, 1961 is transferred from Chediminae to Palpimaninae, and 2) Fernandezina gyirongensis Hu & Li, 1987 from China, based on palpal morphology, is transferred to the Asian genus Steriphopus Simon, 1887 for a new combination Steriphopus gyirongensis (Hu & Li, 1987) comb. n.

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          Espécies novas de Otiothops e Fernandezina do norte do Brasil (Araneae, Palpimanidae)

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            Palpimanid spiders from Guyana: new species of the genera Fernandezina and Otiothops (Araneae, Palpimanidae, Otiothopinae)

            Two new species of the spider family Palpimanidae from Guyana are described: Fernandezina takutu, the first species of this genus known from this country andOtiothops giralunas, that seems to be the sister species of O. goloboffi Grismado, 1996 from northwestern Argentina.
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              The first palpimanid spiders from Bolivia two new species of the genus Otiothops MacLeay and the female of Fernandezina pulchra Biraben (Araneae Palpimanidae Otiothopinae)

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                Zookeys
                Zookeys
                ZooKeys
                ZooKeys
                Pensoft Publishers
                1313-2989
                1313-2970
                2013
                23 August 2013
                : 326
                : 27-45
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Department of Zoology, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, 69978 Tel-Aviv, Israel
                [2 ]Institute for Biological Problems of the North RAS, Portovaya Str. 18, Magadan, Russia
                [3 ]Zoological Museum, University of Turku, FI-20014, Turku, Finland
                Author notes
                Corresponding author: Sergei Zonstein ( znn@ 123456post.tau.ac.il )

                Academic editor: M. Kuntner

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                10.3897/zookeys.326.5344
                3764535
                24039534
                0b936c51-2b8c-4885-97c6-bb28ad71bc61
                Sergei Zonstein, Yuri M. Marusik

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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                : 17 April 2013
                : 9 August 2013
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                Animal science & Zoology
                spiders,new taxa,taxonomy,palearctic,south-western asia,near east
                Animal science & Zoology
                spiders, new taxa, taxonomy, palearctic, south-western asia, near east

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