{"title":"Linyphiid spiders collected by V. Mahnert in Kenya, with the description of a new genus and two new species (Arachnida: Araneae)","authors":"A. Tanasevitch","doi":"10.35929/RSZ.0024","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: A collection of spiders from Kenya, assembled by Prof. Volker Mahnert and deposited in the Natural History Museum of Geneva, contains 16 identifiable linyphiid species. Among of them a new genus and two new species were revealed: Afrotrichona gen. nov., with Afrotrichona mahnerti sp. nov. as the type species, and Agyneta spinifera sp. nov. Males of Pelecopsis subflava Russell-Smith & Jocqué, 1986, Lepthyphantes (s. str.) buensis Bosmans & Jocqué, 1983, and Machadocara gongylioides Miller, 1970 are illustrated and briefly redescribed. The latter two species, together with Agyneta habra (Locket, 1968), Metalepthyphantes vicinus Locket, 1968, Microctenonyx subitaneus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) and P. pasteuri (Berland in Fage & Simon, 1936), are reported for the Kenyan fauna for the first time. In addition, A. spinifera sp. nov. is also reported from Tanzania.","PeriodicalId":54455,"journal":{"name":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","volume":"127 1","pages":"349 - 360"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2020-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Revue Suisse de Zoologie","FirstCategoryId":"99","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.35929/RSZ.0024","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"ZOOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract: A collection of spiders from Kenya, assembled by Prof. Volker Mahnert and deposited in the Natural History Museum of Geneva, contains 16 identifiable linyphiid species. Among of them a new genus and two new species were revealed: Afrotrichona gen. nov., with Afrotrichona mahnerti sp. nov. as the type species, and Agyneta spinifera sp. nov. Males of Pelecopsis subflava Russell-Smith & Jocqué, 1986, Lepthyphantes (s. str.) buensis Bosmans & Jocqué, 1983, and Machadocara gongylioides Miller, 1970 are illustrated and briefly redescribed. The latter two species, together with Agyneta habra (Locket, 1968), Metalepthyphantes vicinus Locket, 1968, Microctenonyx subitaneus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) and P. pasteuri (Berland in Fage & Simon, 1936), are reported for the Kenyan fauna for the first time. In addition, A. spinifera sp. nov. is also reported from Tanzania.
Federico Trotta, George Jing Wang, Zhenyu Guo, Zhen Xu, Maria Crespo Ribadeneyra, Heather Au, Jacqueline Sophie Edge, Maria Magdalena Titirici, Laura Lander
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The Revue suisse de Zoologie is a biannual journal published by the Geneva Museum and the Swiss Zoological Society. The Swiss Academy of Sciences and the City of Geneva provide financial support to the journal.
The Revue suisse de Zoologie publishes original results of zoological research, particularly in systematics and related fields.