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A web of canopy discoveries part I (Araneae: Araneidae). New astonishing species of orb-weaving spiders from Ecuador and the first country record of Pozonia Schenkel, 1953

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  • 1. Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad INABIO, Quito, Ecuador. & Fundación Uru, Quito, Ecuador.
  • 2. Museum of Nature Hamburg, Zoology, Leibniz-Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), Center for Taxonomy and Morphology, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany.

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Díaz-Guevara, David R., Dupérré, Nadine (2025): A web of canopy discoveries part I (Araneae: Araneidae). New astonishing species of orb-weaving spiders from Ecuador and the first country record of Pozonia Schenkel, 1953. Zootaxa 5660 (4): 587-595, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9

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References

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