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Acanthogonyleptes fulvigranulatus

Suborder

Laniatores

Superfamily

Gonyleptoidea

Family

Gonyleptidae

Subfamily

Gonyleptinae

Genus

Acanthogonyleptes

Acanthogonyleptes fulvigranulatus (Mello-Leitão, 1922) is a member of the genus Acanthogonyleptes (Laniatores: Gonyleptidae).

Taxonomy[]

Original Description[]

"Male= 10mm

Anterior margin of cephalotliorax with three close spines at its lateral corners and with two little median cones at its upperside. Cephalothorax narrow, unevenly granular. Eye-turret closer to anterior margin than to first transverse groove, very high and with two close sharp spines. Abdominal dorsal scutum with four transverse grooves, i. and ii. united by a median longitudinal groove. Fields i., ii., and iii. with two median blunt tubercles and unevenly granular ; field iv. unarmed, with a transverse row of granules ; marginal fields unevenly granular. Free dorsal segments i., ii., and iii. with a median cone and a transverse row of granules. Stigmatic plate and coxae iv. with scattered granules ; free ventral segments with a row of granules ; coxae iv. with a long outer spur, a little oblique downwards, with a curved tip and a short branch at the underside ; femur right, with seriated spines at its inner and outer side and with a dorsal anvil-like spur. Underside roast-yellow, with the granules of coxae iv. and of stigmatic plate dark fulvous. Dorsal scutum dark yellow with fulvous granules.

Hab. Alto da Serra (S. Paulo). Type in the S. Paulo Museum."

References[]

  1. Mello-Leitão, C.F. de (1922) Some new Brazilian Gonyleptidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (9) 9, 329–348. [Issued April 1922].
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