A Description of Pocobletus Coroniger Simon (Araneae, Linyphiidae)
More than thirty years ago I began finding this species in my coIlections from localities in the Panama Canal Zone. For many years they were regarded as representatives of a new genus. During a period of work in the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris in 958 Dr. H. W. Levi made sketch...
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| Language: | English |
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Wiley
1969-01-01
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| Series: | Psyche: A Journal of Entomology |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1969/12151 |
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| Summary: | More than thirty years ago I began finding this species in my
coIlections from localities in the Panama Canal Zone. For many
years they were regarded as representatives of a new genus. During
a period of work in the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in
Paris in 958 Dr. H. W. Levi made sketches of the type specimens
of Pocobletus coroniger Simon and later identified my specimens
from Panama. In I894 Simon gave a brief definition of the genus
Pocobletus and in a footnote he gave a very brief description of both
sexes of Pocobletus coroniger and included the species in his general
treatment of the Argiopidae. No figures were given with the description.
Because of the uncertainties regarding the status of the
species it now seems worth while to prepare a series of figures together
with what I hope will be regarded as an adequate description of both
sexes of this interesting species. As a basis for this description I have
selected a male from Summit, Panama Canal Zone, August, I950
and a female from Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone, February,
I958. Other specimens from localities in the Canal Zone have also
been used to supplement data derived from these two specimens. |
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| ISSN: | 0033-2615 1687-7438 |