Acantholibitia pustulosa, Mello-Leitao, 1928

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ACANTHOLIBITIA PUSTULOSA MELLO- LEITÃO, 1928

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Acantholibitia pustulosa Mello-Leitão, 1928: 10 , fig. 2. Acantholibitia armata Mello-Leitão, 1939: 293 , fig. 15, syn. nov.

Type data: Syntypes: Brazil. ‘ Matto Grosso’ [Mato Grosso do Sul]: Campo Grande [–20.450189°, –54.560608°], five ind. ( MNRJ 1379 ). Type : Brazil. ‘ Mato Grosso’ [Mato Grosso do Sul]: [Ribas do Rio Pardo], Bálsamo [–20.38248°, –53.94669°], (whereabouts unknown, holotype of A. armata ) .

Non-type material: Brazil. Mato Grosso do Sul: Campo Grande , 50 km S Campo Grande [–20.98449°, –54.63616°, 464 m], P Salinas leg., 17.vii.1988, three ind. ( AMNH AK 145 ) .

Diagnosis: Differs from its congeners by having areas I–V armed with paramedian low spines and lateral margins of abdomen with strong rounded tubercles, perceptible in dorsal view ( Fig. 11 ).

Distribution: Known from Cerrado ecoregion in Mato Grosso do Sul State of Brazil ( Fig. 10 ).

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Figure 10. Map of known distribution of Acantholibitia. Numbers correspond to the following WWF ecoregions:1 = Cerrado, 2 = Bahia interior forest, 3 = Maranhão Babaçu forest, 4 = Caatinga Enclaves moist forest, 5 = Caatinga, 6 = Pernambuco interior forest, 7 = Pernambuco coastal forest.

Figure 11. Acantholibitia pustulosa. A, male syntype (MNRJ 1379), dorsal view. B–E, male from Campo Grande, MS (AMNH AK 145): B, dorsal view. C, frontal view. D, lateral panoramic view. E, lateral view. Scale bars: 1 mm.