Taxonomic revision of the soldier spider genus Falconina Brignoli, 1985 (Araneae: Corinnidae: Corinninae) Author García, Fabián 0000-0001-9665-2318 Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Coordenação de Zoologia, Laboratório de Aracnologia, Av. Perimetral 1901, CEP: 66077 - 830, Belém, Pará, Brazil & Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Evolução-Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi & Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia-Universidade Federal do Pará / Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi & fdracochela @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9665 - 2318 fdracochela@gmail.com Author Bonaldo, Alexandre B. 0000-0002-8216-5110 Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Coordenação de Zoologia, Laboratório de Aracnologia, Av. Perimetral 1901, CEP: 66077 - 830, Belém, Pará, Brazil & Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Evolução-Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi & Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia-Universidade Federal do Pará / Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi & bonaldo @ museu-goeldi. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8216 - 5110 bonaldo@museu-goeldi.br text Zootaxa 2023 2023-09-08 5343 3 201 242 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5343.3.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5343.3.1 1175-5326 8334263 A4E4E99C-0364-4759-81A2-6D570F899F5C Falconina melloi ( Schenkel, 1953 ) Figs 12 , 24 Falconia melloi Schenkel, 1953: 46 , figs 40a–c (♂ holotype from El Pozon , Falcón , Acosta, Venezuela , deposited in MHNB 2252-a., examined by photographs, Fig. 12 ). Falconina melloi Brignoli, 1985: 380 ; Bonaldo, 2000: 78 , figs 211–214. Corinna melloi M ü ller & Heimer, 1988: 155 , figs 1–9. Diagnosis. Males of Falconina melloi resemble those of Falconina albomaculosa by the small embolar process and large tegular process, which is as wide as the tegulum width ( Fig. 12B ) Bonaldo, 2000 fig. 211), with pronounced lateral margins, inserted on a tegular depression ( Fig. 12 A , Bonaldo 2000 fig. 212). They can be distinguished by the tegular process entire, with acute corners in the apical-lateral margins, apical spur of RTA filiform, nearly as long as the median lobe, and by the presence of a small dorsal lobe ( Fig. 12B ). Females of Falconina melloi resemble those of F. adriki sp. nov. and F. taita sp. nov. in the absence of a pronounced median notch in the posterior margin of epigynal plate ( Bonaldo, 2000 fig. 213) but can be recognized by the posterior margin of epigynal plate straight and by the posterior vulvar plate shorter, wider than long (Bonaldo: 2000 fig. 214). Description. See Bonaldo 2000: 78–79 . Habitus and palp of holotype male in Fig. 12 . Distribution. Known from Venezuela and northern Colombia ( Fig. 24 ).