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Issue: Vol. 1560 No. 1: 27 Aug. 2007
Type: Article
Published: 2007-08-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1560.1.6
Page range: 63–68
Abstract views: 33
PDF downloaded: 1

Redescription of Tagulis mystacinus (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Sri Lanka

Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History MRC 105, PO Box 37012, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, 20013–7012, USA
38/7, Mohideen Masjid Lane, Maradana, Colombo 10, Sri Lanka
Araneae Biodiversity Bominae Crab spiders Sri Lanka Tagulini Taxonomy

Abstract

Tagulis mystacinus Simon, 1895 from Sri Lanka is redescribed based on a pair of newly collected male and female specimens. T. mystacinus may be separated from other thomisids by the presence of very peculiar leaf-shaped macrosetae immediately posterior to anterior and posterior lateral eyes. They also may be separated by details of their genitalia.

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