On the Neotropical spider genus Otoniela Brescovit, 1997 (Araneae: Anyphaenidae, Anyphaeninae), with the description of six new species Author Oliveira, Luiz Fernando M. Laboratório de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brasil, 1500, 05503 - 900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil Author De Alvarenga, José Geraldo G. 0000-0003-2864-6981 Laboratório de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brasil, 1500, 05503 - 900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil & ge. alvarenga. bio @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2864 - 6981 ge.alvarenga.bio@gmail.com Author Brescovit, Antonio D. 0000-0002-1511-5324 Laboratório de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brasil, 1500, 05503 - 900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil & antonio. brescovit @ butantan. gov. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1511 - 5324 antonio.brescovit@butantan.gov.br text Zootaxa 2023 2023-12-08 5383 1 1 23 https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5383.1.1/52436 journal article 282049 10.11646/zootaxa.5383.1.1 e4f2d723-0167-4ed9-bafc-f405de6b1347 1175-5326 10301516 7A1B3C63-D41A-4F5D-976D-BEE4B8B02ABE Otoniela quadrivittata Simon, 1896 Temnida quadrivittata Simon, 1896: 506 (Male holotype , from Caracas , Venezuela , deposited in MNHN 10902 , examined). Teudis sordidus Mello-Leitão, 1941 b: 203 ; 224, fig. 35 ( Lectotype male and paralectotypes two females , from Calchaqui, Santa Fé , Argentina, M. Birabén col., deposited in MLP 15290 , examined). Brescovit, 1997: 61 (Syn.). Otoniela quadrivittata : Brescovit, 1997: 61, figs 133–139. Diagnosis. Males of O. quadrivittata differ from others species of the quadrivittata group by the prolaterally tapering ventral tegular projection; conical retrolateral patellar apophysis and large arc of the sperm duct (see Brescovit, 1997a , figs 136–137). Females differ of these species by the conspicuous anterior border and atrium with anterior invagination and long copulatory ducts laterally inserted on the spermathecae (see Brescovit, 1997a , fig. 138). Description. Male and female described by Brescovit (1997: 61–62). Other material examined. None, only records cited in Brescovit, 1997: 62 Distribution. Venezuela and north of Argentina ( Fig. 12A ).