Publications by authors named "Richard A Torres"

We present the description and illustration of a new species within the genus Charinus Simon, 1892, discovered in a cave located in the state of Tocantins, situated in the northern region of Brazil. Charinus tocantinensis sp. nov.

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The species of the genus Centroctenus can be distinguished from other Ctenidae genera by the presence of a long tibiae and the absence of a retrolateral projection of the cymbium in the male palp, and by the presence of a rounded spermathecae in the female epigynum. The composition of this spider genus is herein expanded to eleven Neotropical species, with the description of six new species: Centroctenus dourados sp. n.

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Charinus rocamadre is the only species described and recorded from Colombia. It is know from only one male specimen collected from a cave in the Colombian Caribbean region. Herein, we describe the female of C.

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