Hexophthalma hahni Karsch, 1878

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002763

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Described:

Distribution: Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa

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Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) m (722) -
  • Syntype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa 1j (ENW-X 150520) of Sicarius testaceus [N.B.: 3f are lost] - (Lotz, 2012)
Taxonomic References
Hexomma hahnii Karsch, 1878c: 325, pl. 9, f. 2 (Dm) Original description
Hexophthalma hahni Karsch, 1879h: 109 (generic replacement name)
Sicarius hahni Simon, 1893a: 269, f. 225-231 (m)
Sicarius hahni Purcell, 1908: 225 (Df)
Sicarius testaceus Purcell, 1908: 224 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002775]
Sicarius hahni Lotz, 2012: 8, f. 2C, 3C, 4D (mf)
Sicarius testaceus Lotz, 2012: 12, f. 2E, 3E, 4F (f, Dm)
Hexophthalma hahni Magalhães, Brescovit & Santos, 2017: 850, f. 13B, 14B-C, 16G, 18G, 19C, 23A-C, 24A, 61A-D (mf, T from Sicarius)
Hexophthalma testacea Magalhães, Brescovit & Santos, 2017: 852 (T from Sicarius)
Hexophthalma hahni Lotz, 2018: 11, f. 11-15, 21 (mf, S of H. testacea)
Hexophthalma hahni Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021w: 7, 3: 1 f., 7: 6 f., 8: 4 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

Karsch, F. (1878c). Exotisch-araneologisches. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 51: 322-333, 771-826. -- Show included taxa

Karsch, F. (1879h). Sieben neue Arachniden von St. Martha. Entomologische Zeitung, Stettin 40: 106-109. -- 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

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

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2022-10-18 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021w
2022-10-18 Species distribution update Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021w Old value
2018-04-11 Species distribution update Lotz, 2018 Old value
2018-04-11 New taxonomic reference entry Lotz, 2018
2018-04-11 Species synonymy Lotz, 2018 Hexophthalma testacea synonymized with Hexophthalma hahni
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

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