@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref27439, author = {Facundo Mart?n Labarque and Abel Perez-Gonzalez and Charles E. Griswold}, title = {Molecular Phylogeny and Revision of the False Violin Spiders (Araneae, Drymusidae) of Africa}, year = {2017}, keywords = {Gondwana; Phylogenetics; Cladistic Analysis; Taxonomy; Morphological Comparison; }, doi = {}, url = {http://}, pmid = {}, journal = {Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society}, volume = {}, number = {}, pages = {}, abstract = {The monotypic family Drymusidae includes few cryptic spiders that build irregular webs in dark places. The family is distributed in South Africa, the Neotropical, and Andean regions. Here, we use a molecular approach to infer the relationships of Drymusidae. Molecular data include six markers, three mitochondrial (COI, 16S, 12S) and three nuclear (H3, 28S, 18S). Our preferred analyses support Drymusidae, and its American and African clades as monophyletic, both emerging as sister groups. Our analyses suggest a Gondwanan distribution of Drymusidae and a Westward radiation of Izithunzi gen. nov. within South Africa, but both hypotheses remain to be thoroughly tested. We describe Izithunzi gen. nov. for the African species. All previous described species were redescribed and new combinations proposed: Izithunzi capense (Simon) comb. nov., Izithunzi productum (Purcell) comb. nov. and Izithunzi silvicola (Purcell) comb. nov.. Two new species were described: Izithunzi lina sp. nov. (known from both sexes) and Izithunzi zondii sp. nov. (known only by female). The male of I. productum (Purcell) comb. nov. was also described for the first time. We consider Drymusa valida (Lawrence, 1964) a junior synonym of Izithunzi capense (Simon) comb. nov. (new synonymy). We also provide a dichotomy key for Izithunzi gen. nov. species.} }

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