New species and phylogenetic relationships of the spider genus Coptoprepes using morphological and sequence data (Araneae: Anyphaenidae)

To assist with the matching of sexes in somatically similar species of Coptoprepes and in the absence of sequence data, we performed a dual cladistic analysis as proposed by Platnick & Shadab (1978), scoring the male and female as separate terminals in the morphological phylogenetic dataset (named split matrix). If they were the same species, the expectation is that they are grouped together or nearby in the tree. Once the sexes were matched, the final matrix was composed merging the scorings of male and female (named merge matrix).