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Figs. 1-3. Anelosimus saramacca new species. 1, 2. Epigynum. 1. Dorsal, cleared. 
2. Ventral. 3. Left male palpus. 
Fig. 4. Anelosimus dubiosus (Keyserling). Left male palpus. Scale lines, 0. 1 mm. 
Anelosimus dubiosus (Keyserling) 
Figure 4 
Theridium dubiosum Keyserling, 1891, 3: 187, pi. 6, fig. 133, Male holotype 
from N. Freiburg (Nova Friburgo, Est. Rio de Janeiro), Brazil in the British 
Museum, Natural History, reexamined. 
Description. Carapace, legs orange. Abdomen white with a dorsal 
gray band. Total length, 3.4 mm. Carapace, 1.7 mm long, 1.2 mm 
wide. First femur, 2.2 mm; patella and tibia, 2.5 mm; metatarsus, 1.5 
mm; tarsus, 0.8 mm. Second patella and tibia, 1.9 mm; third, 1.3 
mm; fourth, 1.8 mm. 
Note. Anelosimus jabaquara Levi, 1956 is not a synonym of this 
species as thought in 1963. Anelosimus dubiosus differs by having a 
much longer filamentous embolus (Fig. 4) than A. jabaquara (Levi, 
1956, fig. 18) and A. saramacca (Fig. 3). 
Acknowledgments 
The specimens of A. saramacca were collected on the Second 
Cornell Entomology Expedition to Suriname. The cost of this 
