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Type: Article
Published: 2014-06-12
Page range: 79–93
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The huntsman genus Decaphora Franganillo, 1931 (Araneae: Sparassidae: Sparianthinae)

Laboratório Especial de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brazil 1500, 05503-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Obispo No. 61, Ciudad de La Habana, C.P. 10100, Cuba.
Mexico Neotropical region new species spiders taxonomy transfer

Abstract

The genus Decaphora Franganillo, 1931 is revised. Pseudosparianthis variabilis F.O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900, Pseudosparianthis cubana Banks, 1909 and Thelcticopis pestai (Reimoser, 1939) are transferred to the genus; and P. cubana is considered a senior synonym of the type species, Decaphora trabiformis Franganillo, 1931. In addition, the female of T. pestai and the male of P. variabilis are described for the first time; and a new species, Decaphora kohunlich spec. nov., is described from Mexico and Guatemala.