PLOS ONE RESEARCH ARTICLE Ocrepeira klamt sp. n. (Araneae: Araneidae), a novel spider species from an Andean paÂramo in Colombia 1 2 1,3,4,5,6,7 Charlotte HopfeID *, Bryan Ospina-Jara , Thomas ScheibelID , Jimmy Cabra- GarcõÂa2* 1 Department of Biomaterials, UniversitaÈt Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, 2 Department of Biology, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, 3 Forschungszentrum fuÈr Bio-MakromolekuÈle, UniversitaÈt Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, 4 Bayreuther Zentrum fuÈr Kolloide und GrenzflaÈchen, UniversitaÈt a1111111111 Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, 5 Bayreuther Materialzentrum, UniversitaÈt Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, a1111111111 6 Bayreuther Zentrum fuÈr Molekulare Biowissenschaften, UniversitaÈt Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, a1111111111 7 Bayrisches Polymerinstitut, UniversitaÈt Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany a1111111111 a1111111111 *
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[email protected] (JCG) Abstract OPEN ACCESS Herein we describe Ocrepeira klamt sp. n. (Araneae: Araneidae), a new orb-weaving spider Citation: Hopfe C, Ospina-Jara B, Scheibel T, species from a Colombian paÂramo, which was formerly inaccessible for scientific studies Cabra-GarcõÂa J (2020) Ocrepeira klamt sp. n. due to decades long armed conflicts. Both, phenotypic and molecular data are used to con- (Araneae: Araneidae), a novel spider species from firm genus affiliation, and the new species is placed into phylogenetic context with other ara- an Andean paÂramo in Colombia. PLoS ONE 15(8): e0237499. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. neid spiders. Morphological characteristics and ecological notes of Ocrepeira klamt sp. n. pone.0237499 are reported together with the sequence of the barcoding region of cytochrome c oxidase Editor: MatjazÏ Kuntner, National Institute of subunit I (COI) to provide a comprehensive description of the spider, facilitating future identi- Biology, SLOVENIA fication beyond taxonomic experts.