Taxon details

Family: Sicariidae / Genus: Loxosceles

Loxosceles laeta (Nicolet, 1849)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-12-02
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002708]
  • Distribution: South America. Introduced to USA, Gutemala, Finland, Australia
Type deposit provide information
  • Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; ff (probably lost) (Brescovit et al., 2017)
Taxonomic references
Scytodes laeta Nicolet, 1849: 349, pl. 2, f. 3 (Df).
Scytodes rufipes Nicolet, 1849: 348, pl. 1, f. 11 (Df; preoccupied by Lucas, 1834, see Loxosceles rufipes) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056234].
Scytodes nigella Nicolet, 1849: 350, pl. 2, f. 4 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056235].
Omosita bicolor Holmberg, 1876: 4, f. 2 (D) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037740].
Loxosceles longipalpis Banks, 1902c: 55, pl. 1, f. 13 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037741].
Loxosceles laeta Simon, 1907c: 247, f. 1B (Dm, T from Scytodes, S of Scytodes nigella and S. rufipes Nicolet).
Loxosceles nesophila Chamberlin, 1920b: 40, pl. 4, f. 6 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037742].
Loxosceles yura Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942a: 5, f. 1-3 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037743].
Loxosceles laeta Gertsch, 1958b: 37, f. 69-72 (mf).
Scytodes laeta Bücherl, 1960: 73 (T from Loxosceles).
Loxosceles rufipes Bücherl, 1961: 213, f. 2b (m; misidentified per Gertsch, 1967a: 149).
Loxosceles rufipes Bücherl, 1964: 43, f. 2a-d, 5a-c (mf; misidentified per Galiano, 1967c: 433).
Loxosceles laeta Gertsch, 1967a: 147, pl. 6, f. 1-9, pl. 7, f. 1-5, 8-9 (mf, S of Loxosceles bicolor, L. longipalpis, L. nesophila and L. yura).
Loxosceles laeta Galiano, 1967c: 445, f. 18-20 (m).
Loxosceles laeta Palmgren, 1977a: 27, f. 6.6-7 (m).
Loxosceles laeta Gertsch & Ennik, 1983: 349, f. 338-340, 352-355 (mf).
Loxosceles laeta Lehtinen, 1986: 152, f. 3, 6.
Loxosceles laeta Fischer, 1994: 76, f. 2.1-8, 4A-B, 5A-B, 6 (mf).
Loxosceles laeta Rodrigues & Dornelles, 2003: 76, f. 7-8, 10 (mf).
Loxosceles laeta Brescovit et al., 2017: 3, f. 1A, 9A (m).
Loxosceles laeta Silveira & de Souza, 2017a: 33, f. 1A-F, 2A-F (mf).
Loxosceles laeta Faúndez et al., 2020: 56, f. 1A-E (mf).
Loxosceles laeta Canals & Taucare-Ríos, 2021: 170, f. 1, 2A-D, 3A-B, 4, 6 (m).
Loxosceles laeta Peralta Seen & Diez, 2023: 87, f. 1b, d, 2b, d (mf).
Loxosceles laeta Medina-Arellano, Mejía-Recinos & Argueta-Fong, 2024: 202, f. 1-3 (f).
References

Banks, N. (1902c). Papers from the Hopkins Stanford Galapagos Expedition; 1898-1899. VII. Entomological Results (6). Arachnida. With field notes by Robert E. Snodgrass. Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences 4: 49-86. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Brescovit, A. D., Taucare-Ríos, A., Magalhaes, I. L. F. & Santos, A. J. (2017). On Chilean Loxosceles (Araneae: Sicariidae): first description of the males of L. surca and L. coquimbo, new records of L. laeta and three remarkable new species from coastal deserts. European Journal of Taxonomy 388: 1-20. doi:10.5852/ejt.2017.388 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bücherl, W. (1960). Loxosceles y loxoscelismo en América del Sur III.-Loxosceles laeta (Nicolet) 1849 no existe. Boletin Chileno de Parasitologia 15: 73-77. 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

Bücherl, W. (1964). Loxosceles e loxoscelismo na América do Sul. V. As espécies sul-americanas do gênero Loxosceles Heinecken e Lowe 1832. Memórias do Instituto Butantan 31: 15-54. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Canals Lambarri, M. & Taucare-Ríos, A. (2021). Loxosceles laeta, la araña del rincón. In: Taucare-Ríos, A. & Canals, M. (eds.) Arácnidos comunes de Chile. Revista Parasitología Latinoamericana 20(2): 170-182. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. (1920b). South American Arachnida, chiefly from the Guano Islands of Peru. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences 3: 35-44. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. & Ivie, W. (1942a). A hundred new species of American spiders. Bulletin of the University of Utah 32(13): 1-117. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Faúndez, E. I., Alvarez-Muñoz, C. X., Carvajal, M. A. & Vargas, C. J. (2020). The recent expansion of Chilean recluse Loxosceles laeta (Nicolet) (Arachnida: Araneae) in southern Patagonia. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 79(2): 56-58. doi:10.25085/rsea.790209 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Fischer, M. L. (1994). Levantamento das espécies do gênero Loxosceles Heinecken & Lowe, 1832 no Município de Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil. Estudos de Biologia, Curitiba 3: 63-88. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1967c). Ciclo biologico y desarrollo de Loxosceles laeta (Nicolet, 1849) (Araneae, Scytodidae). Acta Zoológica Lilloana 23: 431-464. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gertsch, W. J. (1958b). The spider genus Loxosceles in North America, Central America, and the West Indies. American Museum Novitates 1907: 1-46. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gertsch, W. J. (1967a). The spider genus Loxosceles in South America (Araneae, Scytodidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 136: 117-174. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gertsch, W. J. & Ennik, F. (1983). The spider genus Loxosceles in North America, Central America, and the West Indies (Araneae, Loxoscelidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 175: 264-360. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Holmberg, E. L. (1876). Arácnidos argentinos. Anales de Agricultura de la República Argentina 4: 1-30. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lehtinen, P. T. (1986). Evolution of the Scytodoidea. Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Arachnology, Panama 1983, 149-157. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Medina-Arellano, D., Mejía-Recinos, D. & Argueta-Fong, L. (2024). Loxosceles laeta (Nicolet, 1849) (Araneae, Sicarridae) en Ciudad de Guatemala. Revista Científica del Sistema de Estudios de Postgrado 7(2): 199-208. doi:10.36958/sep.v7i2.301 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Nicolet, H. (1849). Aracnidos. In: Gay, C. (ed.) Historia física y política de Chile. Zoología 3, 319-543, pl. 1-5. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.16172 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Palmgren, P. (1977a). Die Spinnenfauna Finnlands und Ostfennoskandiens. VIII. Argyronetidae, Agelenidae, Hahniidae, Dictynidae, Amaurobiidae, Titanoecidae, Segestriidae, Pholcidae und Sicariidae. Fauna Fennica 30: 1-50. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Peralta Seen, N. & Diez, F. (2023). The synanthropic austral-most record of the species Loxosceles hirsuta and the formal record of Loxosceles laeta (Araneae: Sicariidae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 82(2): 85-88. doi:10.25085/rsea.820213 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Rodrigues, E. N. L. & Dornelles, J. E. F. (2003). Confirmação da ocorrência de Loxosceles laeta (Nicolet, 1849) e Loxosceles intermedia Mello-Leitão, 1934 (Araneae; Sicariidae) no município de Pelotas, RS, Brasil. Ciência & Natura, Santa Maria 25: 71-82. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Silveira, A L. & Souza, M. N. A. de (2017a). Ocorrência sinantrópica da aranha-marrom Loxosceles laeta (Araneae, Sicariidae) em áreas serranas no Estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil, e notas sobre loxoscelismo. Revista Médica de Minas Gerais 27(e-1858): 31-37. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1907c). Etude sur les araignées de la sous-section des Haplogynes. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 51: 246-264. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Date Type Reference Detail
2024-12-02 New taxonomic reference entry Medina-Arellano, Mejía-Recinos & Argueta-Fong, 2024 n/a
2024-12-02 Species distribution update Medina-Arellano, Mejía-Recinos & Argueta-Fong, 2024 n/a (Old value)
2024-02-17 New taxonomic reference entry Rodrigues & Dornelles, 2003 n/a
2023-07-03 New taxonomic reference entry Peralta Seen & Diez, 2023 n/a
2021-10-21 New taxonomic reference entry Canals & Taucare-Ríos, 2021 n/a
2020-07-03 New taxonomic reference entry Faúndez et al., 2020 n/a
2019-10-31 New taxonomic reference entry Silveira & de Souza, 2017a n/a
2018-01-01 New taxonomic reference entry Brescovit et al., 2017 n/a
2017-10-20 New taxonomic reference entry Galiano, 1967c n/a