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Genus
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Type species.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName family="Archaeidae" genus="Archaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Archaea gracilicollis" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="gracilicollis">Archaea gracilicollis</taxonomicName>
Millot, 1948
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">The name refers to the Madagascan distribution and is feminine in gender.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Distinguished from all other archaeids by the presence of six protrusions, each with a small spine, on the crown of the cephalon, and by the presence of a retrolateral apophysis on the male pedipalpal patella.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
See
<bibRefCitation author="Wood, H" journalOrPublisher="Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="255 - 296" title="A revision of the assassin spiders of the Eriaucheniusgracilicollis group, a clade of spiders endemic to Madagascar (Araneae: Archaeidae)." url="https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00359.x" volume="152" year="2008">Wood (2008)</bibRefCitation>
for a complete description.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Included species.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
14 described species
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. ambre" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="ambre">M. ambre</taxonomicName>
(Wood, 2008),
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. anabohazo" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="anabohazo">M. anabohazo</taxonomicName>
(Wood, 2008),
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. borimontsina" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="borimontsina">M. borimontsina</taxonomicName>
(Wood, 2008),
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. gracilicollis" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="gracilicollis">M. gracilicollis</taxonomicName>
(Millot, 1948),
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. griswoldi" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="griswoldi">M. griswoldi</taxonomicName>
(Wood, 2008),
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. halambohitra" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="halambohitra">M. halambohitra</taxonomicName>
(Wood, 2008),
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. jeanneli" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="jeanneli">M. jeanneli</taxonomicName>
(Millot, 1948),
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. lavatenda" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="lavatenda">M. lavatenda</taxonomicName>
(Wood, 2008),
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. legendrei" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="legendrei">M. legendrei</taxonomicName>
(Platnick, 1991),
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. namoroka" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="namoroka">M. namoroka</taxonomicName>
(Wood, 2008),
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. spiceri" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="spiceri">M. spiceri</taxonomicName>
(Wood, 2008),
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. tsingyensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="tsingyensis">M. tsingyensis</taxonomicName>
(Lotz, 2003),
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. vadoni" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="vadoni">M. vadoni</taxonomicName>
(Millot, 1948),
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. voronakely" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="voronakely">M. voronakely</taxonomicName>
(Wood, 2008), and 4 new species described here:
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Madagascarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Madagascarchaea fohy" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fohy">Madagascarchaea fohy</taxonomicName>
sp. n.,
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Madagascarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Madagascarchaea lotzi" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="lotzi">Madagascarchaea lotzi</taxonomicName>
sp. n.,
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Madagascarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Madagascarchaea moramora" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="moramora">Madagascarchaea moramora</taxonomicName>
sp. n.,
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Madagascarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Madagascarchaea rabesahala" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rabesahala">Madagascarchaea rabesahala</taxonomicName>
sp. n
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="distribution">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Madagascar</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="discussion">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Discussion.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
We elevate the &quot;
<taxonomicName genus="Palpimanoidea" lsidName="Palpimanoidea gracilicollis" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="gracilicollis">gracilicollis</taxonomicName>
group&quot; (
<bibRefCitation author="Wood, H" journalOrPublisher="Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="255 - 296" title="A revision of the assassin spiders of the Eriaucheniusgracilicollis group, a clade of spiders endemic to Madagascar (Araneae: Archaeidae)." url="https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00359.x" volume="152" year="2008">Wood 2008</bibRefCitation>
) to genus level based on phylogenetic analysis that strongly supports two monophyletic clades,
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Eriauchenius" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Eriauchenius" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Eriauchenius</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Madagascarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Madagascarchaea" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Madagascarchaea</taxonomicName>
gen. n., that have diversified on Madagascar (Fig. 1) (
<bibRefCitation author="Wood, HM" journalOrPublisher="Evolution" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="462 - 481" title="Why is Madagascar special? The extraordinarily slow evolution of pelican spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae)." url="https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12578" volume="69" year="2015">Wood et al. 2015</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Wood, HM" journalOrPublisher="Cladistics" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="598 - 626" title="Phylogenetic placement of pelican spiders (Archaeidae, Araneae), with insight into evolution of the &quot; neck &quot; and predatory behaviours of the superfamily Palpimanoidea." url="https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00411.x" volume="28" year="2012">Wood et al. 2012</bibRefCitation>
). These two genera are not sister clades, but instead
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Afrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Afrarchaea" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Afrarchaea</taxonomicName>
is sister to
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Eriauchenius" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Eriauchenius" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Eriauchenius</taxonomicName>
in
<bibRefCitation author="Wood, HM" journalOrPublisher="Evolution" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="462 - 481" title="Why is Madagascar special? The extraordinarily slow evolution of pelican spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae)." url="https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12578" volume="69" year="2015">Wood et al (2015)</bibRefCitation>
, and
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Afrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Afrarchaea" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Afrarchaea</taxonomicName>
is sister to
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Madagascarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Madagascarchaea" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Madagascarchaea</taxonomicName>
gen. n. in
<bibRefCitation author="Wood, HM" journalOrPublisher="Cladistics" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="598 - 626" title="Phylogenetic placement of pelican spiders (Archaeidae, Araneae), with insight into evolution of the &quot; neck &quot; and predatory behaviours of the superfamily Palpimanoidea." url="https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00411.x" volume="28" year="2012">Wood et al (2012)</bibRefCitation>
.
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Eriauchenius" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Eriauchenius" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Eriauchenius</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Afrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Afrarchaea" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Afrarchaea</taxonomicName>
are never recovered as sister clades.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Madagascarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Madagascarchaea" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Madagascarchaea</taxonomicName>
gen. n. contains two main clades, the &quot;
<taxonomicName genus="Palpimanoidea" lsidName="Palpimanoidea vadoni" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="vadoni">vadoni</taxonomicName>
group&quot; and the &quot;
<taxonomicName genus="Palpimanoidea" lsidName="Palpimanoidea jeanneli" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="jeanneli">jeanneli</taxonomicName>
group&quot; (Fig. 1). The &quot;
<taxonomicName genus="Palpimanoidea" lsidName="Palpimanoidea vadoni" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="vadoni">vadoni</taxonomicName>
group&quot; contains
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. borimontsina" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="borimontsina">M. borimontsina</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. legendrei" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="legendrei">M. legendrei</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. vadoni" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="vadoni">M. vadoni</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. fohy" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="fohy">M. fohy</taxonomicName>
sp. n., and
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. rabesahala" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="rabesahala">M. rabesahala</taxonomicName>
sp. n., and these species share the following traits: a retrolateral apophysis on the male pedipalpal femur (compare fig. 12A with fig. 12B in
<bibRefCitation author="Wood, H" journalOrPublisher="Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="255 - 296" title="A revision of the assassin spiders of the Eriaucheniusgracilicollis group, a clade of spiders endemic to Madagascar (Araneae: Archaeidae)." url="https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00359.x" volume="152" year="2008">Wood 2008</bibRefCitation>
) and a highly reduced FSGP that lacks
<normalizedToken originalValue="“wings”">&quot;wings&quot;</normalizedToken>
(Figs 23B, 24B, 25B). The female genitalia of &quot;
<taxonomicName genus="Palpimanoidea" lsidName="Palpimanoidea vadoni" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="vadoni">vadoni</taxonomicName>
group&quot; species do not have interspecific variation. Instead, somatic traits are more useful for identifying &quot;
<taxonomicName genus="Palpimanoidea" lsidName="Palpimanoidea vadoni" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="vadoni">vadoni</taxonomicName>
group&quot; species. We split what was previously considered
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. legendrei" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="legendrei">M. legendrei</taxonomicName>
into two species:
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. legendrei" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="legendrei">M. legendrei</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. rabesahala" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="rabesahala">M. rabesahala</taxonomicName>
sp. n. For clarity, we describe both
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. legendrei" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="legendrei">M. legendrei</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. rabesahala" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="rabesahala">M. rabesahala</taxonomicName>
sp. n. here. In addition, there is a single female specimen (CASENT9046596), denoted as &quot;
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Madagascarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Madagascarchaea" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Madagascarchaea</taxonomicName>
sp. 1&quot; in Fig. 1 that may be a new species, however, since this is the only known specimen and females are difficult to diagnose, we chose not to describe it (collection information: Madagascar, Fianarantsoa,
<normalizedToken originalValue="Réserve">Reserve</normalizedToken>
<normalizedToken originalValue="Forestiére">Forestiere</normalizedToken>
<normalizedToken originalValue="dAgnalazaha">d'Agnalazaha</normalizedToken>
, Mahabo, 42.9 km 215° SW Farafangana,
<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="-23.193888">23°11'38&quot;S</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="47.723057">47°43'23&quot;E</geoCoordinate>
, 20 m, 19 Apr 2006, littoral rainforest, maxi winkler litter extraction, B.L. Fisher et al.).
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. jeanneli" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="jeanneli">M. jeanneli</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. ambre" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="ambre">M. ambre</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. lotzi" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="lotzi">M. lotzi</taxonomicName>
sp. n., and
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. moramora" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="moramora">M. moramora</taxonomicName>
sp. n. belong to the &quot;
<taxonomicName genus="Palpimanoidea" lsidName="Palpimanoidea jeanneli" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="jeanneli">jeanneli</taxonomicName>
group&quot; and are part of a species complex distinguished from other
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Madagascarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Madagascarchaea" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Madagascarchaea</taxonomicName>
by having an elongated and pointy head (Figs 26A, 27A, 28A), a triangular abdomen that is either straight across the posterior (Fig. 28A) or invaginated (Figs 26A, 27A), and a conductor that is a large triangular piece in the prolateral view (Figs 26D, 27D). The current study splits the
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. jeanneli" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="jeanneli">M. jeanneli</taxonomicName>
of
<bibRefCitation author="Wood, H" journalOrPublisher="Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="255 - 296" title="A revision of the assassin spiders of the Eriaucheniusgracilicollis group, a clade of spiders endemic to Madagascar (Araneae: Archaeidae)." url="https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00359.x" volume="152" year="2008">Wood (2008)</bibRefCitation>
into several different species:
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. jeanneli" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="jeanneli">M. jeanneli</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. lotzi" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="lotzi">M. lotzi</taxonomicName>
sp. n., and
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. moramora" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="moramora">M. moramora</taxonomicName>
sp. n. For clarity, we also redescribe
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. jeanneli" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="jeanneli">M. jeanneli</taxonomicName>
here.
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. ambre" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="ambre">M. ambre</taxonomicName>
, is considered a part of the &quot;
<taxonomicName genus="Palpimanoidea" lsidName="Palpimanoidea jeanneli" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="jeanneli">jeanneli</taxonomicName>
-complex&quot; but is not redescribed here, see
<bibRefCitation author="Wood, H" journalOrPublisher="Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="255 - 296" title="A revision of the assassin spiders of the Eriaucheniusgracilicollis group, a clade of spiders endemic to Madagascar (Araneae: Archaeidae)." url="https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00359.x" volume="152" year="2008">Wood (2008)</bibRefCitation>
for a complete description. These four species form a monophyletic group (Fig. 1), although
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. jeanneli" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="jeanneli">M. jeanneli</taxonomicName>
is not included in the phylogeny. Females cannot be distinguished. For the males, embolus shape is the main morphological difference among species.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="madagascarchaea gen. n.: to supplement “gracilicollis group” key">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Madagascarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Madagascarchaea" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Madagascarchaea</taxonomicName>
gen. n.: to supplement &quot;Gracilicollis group&quot; key
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
When using the identification key from
<bibRefCitation author="Wood, H" journalOrPublisher="Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="255 - 296" title="A revision of the assassin spiders of the Eriaucheniusgracilicollis group, a clade of spiders endemic to Madagascar (Araneae: Archaeidae)." url="https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00359.x" volume="152" year="2008">Wood (2008)</bibRefCitation>
, if a specimen is identified as either
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. jeanneli" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="jeanneli">M. jeanneli</taxonomicName>
or
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. ambre" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="ambre">M. ambre</taxonomicName>
, then use the following key to separate
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. jeanneli" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="jeanneli">M. jeanneli</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. ambre" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="ambre">M. ambre</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. lotzi" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="lotzi">M. lotzi</taxonomicName>
sp. n., and
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. moramora" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="moramora">M. moramora</taxonomicName>
sp. n.; females of these four species are indistinguishable:
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<table pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">
27
<normalizedToken originalValue="EF">E-F</normalizedToken>
,
<normalizedToken originalValue="GH">G-H</normalizedToken>
27H
</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. lotzi" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="lotzi">M. lotzi</taxonomicName>
</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">
26F, I, L28
<normalizedToken originalValue="EF">E-F</normalizedToken>
28A
</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">2</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">
<bibRefCitation author="Wood, H" journalOrPublisher="Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="255 - 296" title="A revision of the assassin spiders of the Eriaucheniusgracilicollis group, a clade of spiders endemic to Madagascar (Araneae: Archaeidae)." url="https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00359.x" volume="152" year="2008">Wood 2008</bibRefCitation>
28A
<bibRefCitation author="Wood, H" journalOrPublisher="Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="255 - 296" title="A revision of the assassin spiders of the Eriaucheniusgracilicollis group, a clade of spiders endemic to Madagascar (Araneae: Archaeidae)." url="https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00359.x" volume="152" year="2008">Wood 2008</bibRefCitation>
</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. ambre" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="ambre">M. ambre</taxonomicName>
</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">
26
<normalizedToken originalValue="EF,HI">E-F,H-I</normalizedToken>
</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">3</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">
28
<normalizedToken originalValue="DF28DF">D-F28D-F</normalizedToken>
28A
</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. moramora" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="moramora">M. moramora</taxonomicName>
</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">
26
<normalizedToken originalValue="DL26EF">D-L26E-F</normalizedToken>
,
<normalizedToken originalValue="HI">H-I</normalizedToken>
26A
</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. jeanneli" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="jeanneli">M. jeanneli</taxonomicName>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
When using the identification key from
<bibRefCitation author="Wood, H" journalOrPublisher="Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="255 - 296" title="A revision of the assassin spiders of the Eriaucheniusgracilicollis group, a clade of spiders endemic to Madagascar (Araneae: Archaeidae)." url="https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00359.x" volume="152" year="2008">Wood (2008)</bibRefCitation>
, if a specimen is identified as
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. legendrei" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="legendrei">M. legendrei</taxonomicName>
, then use the following key to separate species of
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. legendrei" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="legendrei">M. legendrei</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. fohy" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="fohy">M. fohy</taxonomicName>
sp. n., and
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. rabesahala" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="rabesahala">M. rabesahala</taxonomicName>
sp. n.:
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<table pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">23A24A</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">2</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">25A</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. rabesahala" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="rabesahala">M. rabesahala</taxonomicName>
</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">
23H, J23C
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. fohy" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="fohy">M. fohy</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. legendrei" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="legendrei">M. legendrei</taxonomicName>
</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. fohy" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="fohy">M. fohy</taxonomicName>
</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">
24
<normalizedToken originalValue="GI25GI">G-I25G-I</normalizedToken>
24C
</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. legendrei" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="legendrei">M. legendrei</taxonomicName>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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