Lyssomanes quadrinotatus Simon, 1900

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Lyssomanes quadrinotatus Simon, 1900: 27 (description of the male holotype collected in Colonia Tovar, Venezuela, deposited in the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France (MNHN), not examined); Galiano, 1962: 85, pl. VII, figs. 5-8; Galiano, 1963: 385, pl. XXI, figs. 4-5; Galiano, 1980: 46, figs. 105-106; World Spider Catalog, 2018.

Lyssomanes bradyspilus Crane, 1949: 31, figs. 1A-E (male holotype and female paratype from Portachuelo, Rancho Grande, Aragua National Park [now Henri Pittier National Park), near Maracay, Venezuela, both deposited in the American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA (AMNH), not examined); Caporiacco, 1955: 417 . Synonymized by Galiano (1980: 46).

Material examined (notations in brackets added to supplement label data). Colombia, Putumayo: Territorio Kofán, [0.76°N, 77.07°W], 1430 m asl, 21 Sep 1998, 1♂, V . Rodríguez (ICN-Ar 3362). Brazil, Amazonas: Manaus, Reserva da Campina, [2.489°S, 60.021°W], [91 m], 23 Feb 1992, 1♀, no coll. (INPA 2926) . Pará: Juruti, Vista Bela, Pista de Pouso, 3.116666°S, 56.585194°W, [22 m asl], 30 Sep 2009, 1♂, N .F. Lo-Man-Hung (MPEG 15687) .

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Diagnosis. L. quadrinotatus belongs to the L. viridis group of species, with males very similar to those of L. elegans, L. remotus and L. mandibulatus, from which they can be distinguished easily by the straight ventral edge of their long and pointed median apophysis, and their short, robust and straight embolus with a thickened embolar base (Figures 1-2). Females resemble those of L. bryantae, L. unicolor, L. adisi and L. trinidadus by their epigyna with anterior copulatory openings, posterior spermathecae, and short copulatory ducts. However L. quadrinotatus females can be identified by their epigynum with a rounded posterior border, longer copulatory ducts with posterior glandular ducts (arrow in Figure 3), and deeper and wider copulatory openings (Figures 3-4) (Galiano 1962, 1980).

Distribution (Figure 5). Previous known from Venezuela (Aragua) (World Spider Catalog 2018). Here I add new records from Brazil (Amazonas, Pará) and Colombia (Putumayo). This species was collected in a pitfall trap in a highly-conserved Amazonian-Andean rainforest forest in Colombia, and in two wellconserved Amazonian forests in Brazil, the first records of the species from the southern hemisphere of South America.