Taxon details

Family: Sicariidae / Genus: Loxosceles

Loxosceles speluncarum Simon, 1893

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-10-18
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002739]
  • Distribution: South Africa
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Type deposit provide information
  • It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France
Taxonomic references
Loxosceles speluncarum Simon, 1893a: 273 (Df).
Loxosceles speluncarum Simon, 1894b: 64 (Df).
Loxosceles speluncarum Newlands, 1975: 146, f. 6 (Dm).
Loxosceles speluncarum Lotz, 2012: 32, f. 9K, 10J (mf).
Loxosceles speluncarum Lotz, 2017a: 491, f. 16, 35 (mf).
Loxosceles speluncarum Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021w: 21, 5 f. (mf).
References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2021w). The Sicariidae of South Africa. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 24 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7162164 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lotz, L. N. (2012). Present status of Sicariidae (Arachnida: Araneae) in the Afrotropical region. Zootaxa 3522: 1-41. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3522.1.1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lotz, L. N. (2017a). An update on the spider genus Loxosceles (Araneae: Sicariidae) in the Afrotropical region, with description of seven new species. Zootaxa 4341(4): 475-494. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4341.4.2 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Newlands, G. (1975). A revision of the spider genus Loxosceles Heinecken & Lowe, 1835 (Araneae: Scytodidae) in southern Africa with notes on the natural history and morphology. Journal of the Entomological Society of South Africa 38: 141-154. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1893a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 257-488. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1894b). Note sur les arthropodes cavernicoles du Transvaal. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 63: 63-67. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2022-10-18 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021w n/a
2017-11-02 New taxonomic reference entry Lotz, 2017a n/a