Four new species of the genus Novalena Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 (Araneae: Agelenidae) from southeastern Mexican montane forests and first record of ocular anomaly in the genus

Abstract

Four new species of the spider genus Novalena Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 are described: N. bola sp. nov., N. mayae sp. nov., N. padillai sp. nov., and N. zootaxa sp. nov. All species were collected in montane forests in Chiapas, Mexico, and three of them occur in sympatry across their distribution range.