And they just keep coming: four new genera of dark sac spiders from southern Africa (Araneae, Trachelidae)

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As part of ongoing revisions of the Afrotropical ๐˜›๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜ฆ, four new genera are described from southern Africa: ๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ข ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป. ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ƒ., with ๐˜. ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ข ๐˜€๐—ฝ. ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ƒ. from South Africa (Eastern Cape, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal and Western Cape) as the type species, ๐˜. ๐˜ง๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข ๐˜€๐—ฝ. ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ƒ. from the Free State, ๐˜. ๐˜ฌ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜จ๐˜ข ๐˜€๐—ฝ. ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ƒ. from the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, and a fourth undescribed species from Zimbabwe; the monotypic ๐˜”๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป. ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ƒ., with ๐˜”. ๐˜ต๐˜ด๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฌ๐˜ช ๐˜€๐—ฝ. ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ƒ. from KwaZulu-Natal as the type species; ๐˜•๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฒ๐˜ถ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ข ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป. ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ƒ., with ๐˜•. ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฅ๐˜ข ๐˜€๐—ฝ. ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ƒ. from the Northern Cape as the type species and ๐˜•. ๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ฆ ๐˜€๐—ฝ. ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ƒ. from the Western Cape; and ๐˜™๐˜ถ๐˜ฌ๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ถ๐˜ฌ ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป. ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ƒ. from South Africa, with ๐˜™. ๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ถ๐˜ด ๐˜€๐—ฝ. ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ƒ. from the Northern Cape as the type species and a second undescribed species from KwaZulu-Natal known only from juveniles.

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Haddad, Charles R.

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Pensoft Publishers