Mecynogea sucre Levi, 1997

Martins, Pedro H. & Santos, Adalberto J., 2018, Morphology and taxonomy of the orb-weaving spider genus Mecynogea, and a peculiar species of Argiope (Araneae, Araneidae), Zootaxa 4415 (3), pp. 423-451 : 443

Mecynogea sucre Levi, 1997

Mecynogea sucre Levi, 1997: 228 , figs 34–39, Map 2A (Male holotype and female paratype from 7 km E of San Antonio del Golfo , Sucre, Venezuela, 23.III.1982, G.F.J. Hevel leg., In National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, not examined).

Distribution. This species is previously known from Sucre and Bolívar, Venezuela, and Mato Grosso, Brazil. We have two new records from Brazil, in Distrito Federal and in the state of Minas Gerais ( Fig. 17 ).

Material examined. BRAZIL: Distrito Federal: Brasília, Fazenda Água Limpa [15°56'60"S, 47°54'0"W], 1100 m, 29.VII.1990, 1♀ ( IBSP 15883 ) ; 6.XII.1990, 1♂ 1♀ 1juv. (IBSP 15886); Minas Gerais: Gouveia, Fazenda Requeijão [18°23'48.54"S, 43°51'9.06"W], 1168 m, 15–20.II.2012, P.H. Martins leg., 1♀ ( UFMG 11392 ) .

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FIGURE 17. Geographic distribution records of Mecynogea buique Levi 1997 (blue) and M. sucre Levi, 1997 (red). Circles indicate previously known records and stars represent new records.