Taxon details


Loxosceles rufescens (Dufour, 1820)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-02-20
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002730]
  • Distribution: Southern Europe, northern Africa to Iran, Afghanistan. Introduced to USA, Mexico, Peru, Macaronesia, South Africa, India, China, Japan, Korea, Laos, Thailand, Philippines, Australia, Hawaii
Type deposit: provide information
Taxonomic references
Scytodes rufescens Dufour, 1820c: 203, pl. 76, f. 5 (Dm).
Scytodes rufescens Audouin, 1826: 379, pl. 5, f. 2 (Df).
Loxosceles citigrada Heineken & Lowe, in Lowe, 1832: 322, pl. 48, f. 1-14 (Dmf).
Scytodes erythrocephala C. L. Koch, 1838: 90, f. 399-400 (Dmf).
Scytodes distincta Lucas, 1846: 104, pl. 2, f. 4 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037736].
Omosita rufescens Simon, 1864: 50, 451.
Scytodes pallida Blackwall, 1865a: 100 (Dm) [misidentified].
Loxosceles erythrocephala Simon, 1873a: 38 (m).
Loxosceles rufescens Simon, 1873a: 38.
Loxosceles erythrocephala Pavesi, 1876a: 435.
Spermophora comoroensis Butler, 1879b: 43, pl. 1, f. 5 (Dm).
Loxosceles compactilis Simon, 1881e: 6 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037735].
Loxosceles rufescens Bösenberg & Strand, 1906: 113, pl. 6, f. 69, pl. 16, f. 450 (mf).
Loxosceles distincta Simon, 1908a: 422.
Loxosceles rufescens Comstock, 1910: 165, f. 4 (m).
Loxosceles rufescens Simon, 1914: 75, 76, f. 126 (mf).
Loxosceles erythrocephala Simon, 1914: 75, 77, f. 127 (mf).
Loxosceles rufescens Strand, 1918: 91, pl. 2, f. 28-29 (m).
Loxosceles rufescens Petrunkevitch, 1929b: 108, f. 92-96 (mf).
Loxosceles rufescens Bristowe, 1938a: 311, f. 6.
Loxosceles rufescens Comstock, 1940: 108, f. 96 (m).
Loxosceles rufescens Yaginuma, 1940: 129, f. 3 (m).
Loxosceles marylandicus Muma, 1944: 2, f. 1 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037745].
Loxosceles rufescens Gerhardt, 1944: 13, f. 6 (m).
Loxosceles rufescens Gertsch, 1958b: 31, f. 60-62, 73 (mf, S of Loxosceles marylandica).
Loxosceles rufescens Bücherl, 1961: 213, f. 2a (m).
Loxosceles indrabeles Tikader, 1963f: 23, f. 1a-c (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037737].
Loxosceles rufescens Lee, 1966: 24, f. 5a-d (mf).
Loxosceles rufescens Gertsch, 1967a: 144, pl. 10, f. 5-8 (mf).
Loxosceles rufescens Brignoli, 1969b: 156, f. 19-62 (mf).
Loxosceles rufescens Canese, 1972a: 83, f. 1 (m).
Loxosceles rufescens Brignoli, 1976a: 144, f. 9-10 (mf, S of Loxosceles compactilis, L. distrincta and L. indrabeles).
Loxosceles rufescens Paik, 1978d: 572, f. 6-13 (f).
Loxosceles rufescens Yin, Wang & Hu, 1983: 33, f. 1B, 3B (m).
Loxosceles rufescens Gertsch & Ennik, 1983: 353, f. 341-343, 348-351 (mf).
Loxosceles rufescens Lehtinen, 1986: 153, f. 4-5, 7 (mf).
Loxosceles rufescens Yaginuma, 1986a: 18, f. 12.1 (m).
Loxosceles rufescens Yoshikura, 1987: 155, f. 20.9 (m).
Loxosceles rufescens Xu, 1987a: 3, f. 4A-D (mf; probably misidentified per Zamani, Mirshamsi & Marusik, 2021: 673).
Loxosceles rufescens Chen & Gao, 1990: 37, f. 39a-b (m).
Loxosceles rufescens Chen & Zhang, 1991: 68, f. 60.1-3 (mf).
Loxosceles rufescens Dunin, 1992c: 75, f. 1, 5, 10-12 (mf).
Loxosceles rufescens Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 49, f. 19M-N, Q (mf).
Loxosceles rufescens Namkung, 2002: 30, f. 2.1a-c (mf).
Loxosceles rufescens Saaristo, 2002: 29, f. 84-86 (m).
Loxosceles ruescens Yoo & Kim, 2002a: 25, f. 4 (m, lapsus).
Loxosceles rufescens Namkung, 2003: 30, f. 2.1a-c (mf).
Loxosceles rufescens Greene et al., 2009: 158, f. 1-2, 5, 8, 9b, 10b, 11b, 11c (mf).
Loxosceles rufescens Ono, 2009a: 122, f. 1-6 (m).
Loxosceles rufescens Crespo et al., 2009a: 472, f. 8 (f).
Loxosceles rufescens Saaristo, 2010: 214, f. 31.1-3 (m).
Loxosceles rufescens Le Peru, 2011: 111, f. 112 (mf).
Loxosceles rufescens Labarque & Ramírez, 2012: 3, f. 2E, 5A-B, 8A-B, 9E, 10E, 11E, 12E, 13E, 14E, 15E, 16E, 17E, 18E, 19E, 20D-E, 27C-F, 28A-F, 30C-D, 31E (f).
Loxosceles rufescens Lotz, 2012: 29, f. 9G, 10G (mf).
Loxosceles rufescens Yin et al., 2012: 148, f. 21a-d (mf).
Loxosceles rufescens Mirshamsi, Hatami & Zamani, 2013: 83, f. 1-4 (mf).
Loxosceles rufescens Zamani & Rafinejad, 2014: 229, f. 2-4 (m).
Loxosceles rufescens Zamani et al., 2014: 58, f. 1A-B (mf).
Loxosceles rufescens Chomphuphuang et al., 2016: 143, f. 3-5, 8-9 (mf).
Loxosceles rufescens Zhang & Wang, 2017: 688, 5 f. (mf).
Loxosceles rufescens Lotz, 2017a: 485, f. 12, 31 (mf).
Loxosceles rufescens Valdez-Mondragón et al., 2018: 56, f. 68-72 (mf).
Loxosceles rufescens Trivedi & Dal, 2019: 2, f. 1a-h, 2a-f (mf).
Loxosceles rufescens Najim & Al-Fayyadh, 2019: 8, f. 2A-C, 3A-D (mf).
Loxosceles rufescens Caleb, 2020b: 15743, f. 21A-H, 29N (mf).
Loxosceles rufescens Naumova & Deltshev, 2021: 68, f. 15-18 (mf).
Loxosceles rufescens Zamani, Mirshamsi & Marusik, 2021: 671, f. 1E-F, 3B, 4D-F, 5B, 7D-H, 8A-I, 9H (mf, S of Loxosceles alicea; revalidated by Dupérré et al., 2024: 13).
Loxosceles rufescens Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021w: 18, 2 f. (mf).
Loxosceles rufescens Hosseinpour et al., 2022: 4, f. 3 (m).
Loxosceles rufescens Sahoo et al., 2023: 223, f. 1A-D (f).
Loxosceles rufescens El-Hennawy, 2023b: 421, f. 1-4 (m).
Loxosceles rufescens Barrion-Dupo et al., 2024: 5, f. 2A-F, 4A-F (mf).
References

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Barrion-Dupo, A. L. A., Lit, I. L., Duran, C. F. D., Cammayo, M. F. K. M., Alviola, M. S., Mercado, S. M. Q., Osio, C. A. L., Eusebio, O. L., Lucañas, C. C. & Barrion, A. T. (2024). Integrative taxonomy reveals first record of Loxosceles rufescens (Dufour, 1820) (Araneae, Sicariidae) in the Philippines. Biodiversity Data Journal 12(e117072): 1-17. doi:10.3897/BDJ.12.e117072 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Blackwall, J. (1865a). Descriptions of recently discovered spiders collected in the Cape de Verde Islands by John Gray, Esq. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 16(92): 80-101. doi:10.1080/00222936508679383 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bösenberg, W. & Strand, E. (1906). Japanische Spinnen. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 30: 93-422. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Brignoli, P. M. (1969b). Note sugli Scytodidae d'Italia e Malta (Araneae). Fragmenta Entomologica 6: 121-166. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Brignoli, P. M. (1976a). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Scytodidae (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 83(1): 125-191. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bristowe, W. S. (1938a). The classification of spiders. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (B) 108(2): 285-322. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1938.tb00028.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bücherl, W. (1961). Aranhas do gênero Loxosceles e loxoscelismo na America. Ciência e Cultura, Sao Paulo 13(4): 213-224. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Butler, A. G. (1879b). On a small collection of Arachnida from the island of Johanna, etc. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 4(19): 41-44, pl. 1. doi:10.1080/00222937908679782 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Chomphuphuang, N., Deowanish, S., Songsangchote, C., Sivayyapram, V., Thongprem, P. & Warrit, N. (2016). The Mediterranean recluse spider Loxosceles rufescens (Dufour, 1820) (Araneae: Sicariidae) established in a natural cave in Thailand. Journal of Arachnology 44(2): 142-147. doi:10.1636/R15-61 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Najim, S. A. & Al-Fayyadh, M. J. (2019). Second record of Loxosceles rufescens (Dufour, 1820) (Araneae: Sicariidae) from Iraq. Serket 17(1): 7-9. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Valdez-Mondragón, A., Cortez-Roldán, M. R., Juárez-Sánchez, A. R. & Solís-Catalán, K. P. (2018). A new species of Loxosceles Heineken & Lowe (Araneae, Sicariidae), with updated distribution records and biogeographical comments for the species from Mexico, including a new record of Loxosceles rufescens (Dufour). ZooKeys 802: 39-66. doi:10.3897/zookeys.802.28445 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Zamani, A. & Rafinejad, J. (2014). First Record of the Mediterranean Recluse Spider Loxosceles rufescens (Araneae: Sicariidae) from Iran. Journal of Arthropod-Borne Diseases 8(2): 228-231. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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2024-02-20 New taxonomic reference entry Barrion-Dupo et al., 2024 n/a
2024-02-20 Species distribution update Barrion-Dupo et al., 2024 n/a (Old value)
2024-02-15 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Loxosceles alicea Gertsch, 1967
2023-10-26 New taxonomic reference entry El-Hennawy, 2023b n/a
2023-07-03 New taxonomic reference entry Sahoo et al., 2023 n/a
2022-10-18 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021w n/a
2022-05-27 New taxonomic reference entry Hosseinpour et al., 2022 n/a
2021-03-13 Species synonymy Zamani, Mirshamsi & Marusik, 2021 Loxosceles alicea synonymized with Loxosceles rufescens
2021-03-13 New taxonomic reference entry Zamani, Mirshamsi & Marusik, 2021 n/a
2021-03-13 Species distribution update Zamani, Mirshamsi & Marusik, 2021 n/a (Old value)
2021-03-13 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Zamani, Mirshamsi & Marusik, 2021 Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Loxosceles persica Ribera & Zamani, 2017
2021-02-22 New taxonomic reference entry Naumova & Deltshev, 2021 n/a
2020-08-05 New taxonomic reference entry Greene et al., 2009 n/a
2020-05-18 New taxonomic reference entry Caleb, 2020b n/a
2019-11-11 New taxonomic reference entry Najim & Al-Fayyadh, 2019 n/a
2019-08-21 New taxonomic reference entry Trivedi & Dal, 2019 n/a
2019-06-03 New taxonomic reference entry Comstock, 1910 n/a
2019-03-22 New taxonomic reference entry Zhang & Wang, 2017 n/a
2018-12-05 New taxonomic reference entry Valdez-Mondragón et al., 2018 n/a
2018-12-05 Species distribution update Valdez-Mondragón et al., 2018 n/a (Old value)
2017-11-17 New taxonomic reference entry Gerhardt, 1944 n/a
2017-11-02 New taxonomic reference entry Lotz, 2017a n/a
2017-11-02 Species distribution update Lotz, 2017a n/a (Old value)
2017-04-23 New taxonomic reference entry Sadeghi, Dashan & Malek-Hosseini, 2017 n/a
2016-09-21 New taxonomic reference entry Chomphuphuang et al., 2016 n/a
2016-09-19 New taxonomic reference entry Crespo et al., 2009a n/a
2014-09-15 New taxonomic reference entry Zamani et al., 2014 n/a
2014-07-10 New taxonomic reference entry Zamani & Rafinejad, 2014 n/a
2014-06-25 New taxonomic reference entry Mirshamsi, Hatami & Zamani, 2013 n/a