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Cryptic diversity of South African trapdoor spiders: Three new species of Stasimopus Simon, 1892 (Mygalomorphae, Ctenizidae), and redescription of Stasimopus robertsi Hewitt, 1910

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Engelbrecht, Ian, Prendini, Lorenzo (2012): Cryptic diversity of South African trapdoor spiders: Three new species of Stasimopus Simon, 1892 (Mygalomorphae, Ctenizidae), and redescription of Stasimopus robertsi Hewitt, 1910. American Museum Novitates 2012 (3732): 1-44, DOI: 10.1206/3732.2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/3732.2

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