A new species of spider of the genus Sadala Simon, 1880 (Araneae, Sparassidae) from the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve, Amazonian lowlands of Ecuador

Pedro Peñaherrera-R.; Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia

doi:10.1002/ece3.10242

A new species of spider of the genus Sadala Simon, 1880 (Araneae, Sparassidae) from the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve, Amazonian lowlands of Ecuador

Pedro Peñaherrera-R.
, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad INABIO

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Abstract

We describe a new species of giant crab spider of the genus Sadala Simon, 1880 collected in Lowland Evergreen rainforests at the Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Yasuni Biosphere Reserve, Amazonian Ecuador. This new species corresponds to the first record of the genus from Ecuador. Females of the new species of Sadala are similar to S. punicea and S. nanay, by having the epigyne with a median septum diamond-shaped posteriorly. The new species is easily distinguished from S. punicea and S. nanay by having relatively straight anterior lateral margins of the median septum. This study increases to 10 the number of described species of Sadala.

Original language	English
Article number	ECE310242
Journal	Ecology and Evolution
Volume	13
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10242
State	Published - Jul 2023

Keywords

Tiputini
giant crab spider
huntsman spider
new species
northern South America
taxonomy

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