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Genus: Hexophthalma Karsch, 1879 | Family: Sicariidae Keyserling, 1880

Hexophthalma albospinosa Purcell, 1908

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Described:

Distribution: Namibia, South Africa

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Type Repository Provide information

Lectotype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa f (ENW-X 150521) - (Lotz, 2012)
Paralectotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) (10467–69) [only 1f 10468 mentioned by Magalhães, Brescovit & Santos, 2017) - (Magalhães, Brescovit & Santos, 2017)
Paralectotype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa 2j (ENW-X 150521) - (Lotz, 2012)

Taxonomic References

Sicarius albospinosus Purcell, 1908: 224 (Df) Original description

Sicarius albospinosus Lawrence, 1938b: 215, f. 1 (f)

Sicarius albospinosus Lotz, 2012: 3, f. 2A, 3A, 4A (f. Dm)

Hexophthalma albospinosa Magalhães, Brescovit & Santos, 2017: 851, f. 20A-B, 21A-B, 62A-C (mf, T from Sicarius)

Hexophthalma albospinosa Lotz, 2018: 7, f. 6-8, 17 (mf)

Hexophthalma albospinosa Rivera-Quiroz et al., 2020: 4, f. 2c (f; = Magalhães, Brescovit & Santos, 2017: f. 20B)

Hexophthalma albospinosa Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021w: 6, 3 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 -- Show included taxa

Lawrence, R. F. (1938b). Transvaal Museum Expedition to South-West Africa and Little Namaqualand, May to August 1937. Spiders. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 19: 215-226. -- 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 -- Show included taxa

Lotz, L. N. (2018). An update on the spider genus Hexophthalma (Araneae: Sicariidae) in the Afrotropical region, with descriptions of new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 424: 1-18. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2018.424 -- Show included taxa

Magalhaes, I. L. F., Brescovit, A. D. & Santos, A. J. (2017). Phylogeny of Sicariidae spiders (Araneae: Haplogynae), with a monograph on Neotropical Sicarius. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 179(4): 767-864. doi: 10.1111/zoj.12442 -- Show included taxa

Purcell, W. F. (1908). Araneae (I). In: Schultze, L. (ed.): Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika. Erster Band: Systematik und Tiergeographie. Zweite Lieferung. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 13: 203-246, pl. 11. -- Show included taxa

Rivera-Quiroz, F. A., Schilthuizen, M., Petcharad, B. & Miller, J. A. (2020). Imperfect and askew: a review of asymmetric genitalia in araneomorph spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae). PLoS One 15(6, e0220354): 1-26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0220354 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2022-10-18	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021w
2020-06-22	New taxonomic reference entry	Rivera-Quiroz et al., 2020
2018-04-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Lotz, 2018
2017-03-26	Species distribution update	Magalhães, Brescovit & Santos, 2017	Old value
2017-03-26	New taxonomic reference entry	Magalhães, Brescovit & Santos, 2017
2017-03-26	Species transferred to new genus	Magalhães, Brescovit & Santos, 2017		Species transferred from Sicarius to Hexophthalma