A new Amazonian species ofCryptocellus (Arachnida, Ricinulei),with descriptions of its integumental structures and all free-living life stages

Museum of Comparative Zoology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.

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Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Coordenação de Biodiversidade (CBIO), Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Avenida André Araújo, 2936, Aleixo, CEP 69011-970, Cx. Postal 478, Manaus, AM, Brazil. The George Washington University, Department of Biological Sciences, Washington, D.C. 20052, USA

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Abstract

A new species ofCryptocellus Westwood, 1874 is described, based on males, females and all free-living immature stages.Cryptocellus muiraquitan sp. nov. from Juruti, Pará, Brazil, is a member of thefoedus group of species and probably closely related toCryptocellus icamiabasTourinho & Azevedo, 2007,C. abaporuBonaldo & Pinto-da-Rocha, 2003 andC. simonis Hansen & Sørensen, 1904. The new species is illustrated using stereomicroscopy and scanning electron microscopy. The large diversity of integumental structures of the new species is described and compared to that of previously studied species ofCryptocellus andPseudocellus Platnick, 1980.

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Tourinho, A.L., Lo-Man-Hung, N.F. & Salvatierra, L. (2014)

A new Amazonian species ofCryptocellus (Arachnida, Ricinulei), with descriptions of its integumental structures and all free-living life stages

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A new Amazonian species ofCryptocellus (Arachnida, Ricinulei),with descriptions of its integumental structures and all free-living life stages

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