Una nueva araña trampera, Nemesia hesperides sp. nov. (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Nemesiidae), de un jardín doméstico

Cristian Pertegal; Manuel Pinilla Rosa

doi:10.3989/graellsia.2023.v79.387

Authors

Cristian Pertegal Departamento de Zoología, Universidad de Córdoba https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2691-070X
Manuel Pinilla Rosa Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Secció d’Ecologia. Universitat de Barcelona https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2599-0971

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/graellsia.2023.v79.387

Keywords:

Trapdoor spiders, central Iberian Peninsula, green urban spaces, new species, taxonomy, conservation

Abstract

Home gardens can serve as refuges for arthropod biodiversity. Here we describe a new species of trapdoor spider known only from a home garden. Nemesia hesperides sp. nov. builds a simple burrow with a wafer-type trapdoor formed by a fine sheet of web, characteristic shared with N. dorthesi Thorell, 1875, N. entinae Calvo & Pagán, 2022, N. santeugenia Decae, 2005, N. santeulalia Decae, 2005 and N. shenlongi Pertegal et al., 2022, species that share a similar morphology. The presence of Nemesia hesperides sp. nov. in a garden managed by ecological methods and its absence in the surrounding gardens managed only for a recreative use, shows the importance that management plays in the conservation role of home gardens.

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