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These three species are distinguishable from its congeners by a striking pattern of spots on the dorsal scutum, resembling the zodiac sign of Gemini. Males of these species share common characteristics, including non-hypertelic chelicerae, an armed distal region of femur IV, extremely elongated basitarsomeres in leg I, and a penis with a basal pair of MS A. Given the limited knowledge of other species in the genus, these characters will require further study to assess whether they represent synapomorphies of the genus.\n\u00a0<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.11646\/zootaxa.5563.1.15","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,2]],"date-time":"2025-01-02T22:56:52Z","timestamp":1735858612000},"page":"222-236","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Three new species of Paecilaemella (Cosmetidae: Flirteinae) from the upper Amazonian Basin"],"prefix":"10.11646","volume":"5563","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3215-3592","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"MIGUEL","family":"MEDRANO","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4970-9200","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"LAURA R.","family":"CARAMORI","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8334-6204","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"ADRIANO B.","family":"KURY","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"4913","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"392036","unstructured":"Goodnight, C.J. & Goodnight, M.L. 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