Family: Sicariidae Keyserling, 1880 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0110] Back
Gen.
Loxosceles Heineken & Lowe, 1832 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00325 ]
N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Omosites Walckenaer, 1833: 440, 445 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05912] (type Scytodes rufescens Dufour, 1820) by Thorell, 1869: 104; considered a senior synonym of Calheirosia Mello-Leitão, 1917a: 80 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04655] (type C. anomala Mello-Leitão, 1917) by Brignoli, 1978a: 18; considered a senior synonym of Loxoscella Strand, 1906b: 668 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04158] (type L. pallidecolorata Strand, 1906) by Gertsch & Ennik, 1983: 278; the spellings Loxoscelis and Omosita are invalid emendations.
Status:
accepted
Last updated
2024-10-29
2024-10-29
Described in
Lowe, 1832: 321 (type Loxosceles citigrada Heineken & Lowe, 1832; gender feminine; syn. of Loxosceles rufescens (Dufour, 1820))
Lowe, 1832: 321 (type Loxosceles citigrada Heineken & Lowe, 1832; gender feminine; syn. of Loxosceles rufescens (Dufour, 1820))
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Species counts
| Counts | Status |
| 147 | accepted |
| 15 | synonym |
| 1 | nomen nudum |
| 6 | nomen dubium |
Reference
Edit history
Lowe, R. T. (1832). Descriptions of two species of Araneidae, natives of Madeira. The Zoological Journal 5(19, 1831): 320-323, pl. 17-18. 
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