First record of Cithaeron reimoseri (Araneae: Cithaeronidae) from the New World and first record of the family from southern Brazil

Ricardo Ott; Antonio Brescovit

doi:10.15560/9.6.1594

Check List 9(6): 1594-1595, doi: 10.15560/9.6.1594

First record of Cithaeron reimoseri (Araneae: Cithaeronidae) from the New World and first record of the family from southern Brazil

Ricardo Ott^‡, Antonio Domingos Brescovit^§

‡ Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil§ Laboratório Especial de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, Brazil

Corresponding author: Ricardo Ott ( rott@fzb.rs.gov.br )

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Citation: Ott R, Brescovit A (2013) First record of Cithaeron reimoseri (Araneae: Cithaeronidae) from the New World and first record of the family from southern Brazil. Check List 9(6): 1594-1595. https://doi.org/10.15560/9.6.1594

Abstract

The African spider Cithaeron reimoseri Platnick, 1991 is registered for the first time in the New World, based in two females collected at Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Until now C. reimoseri was known only by the holotype from Eritrea. The species C. praedonius O. P.-Cambridge, 1872 was, until now, the only known species of the family with worldwide distribution and is considered prone to introduction in anthropic environments. Cithaeronidae are considered lower gnaphosoids being identifiable by the depressed posterior median eyes and the pseudosegmented tarsi.

Keywords

Araneae; Cithaeronidae; introduced species; African spider; Rio Grande do Sul; Brazil