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Genus: Loxosceles Heineken & Lowe, 1832 | Family: Sicariidae Keyserling, 1880

Loxosceles speluncarum Simon, 1893

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002739

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Described:

Distribution: South Africa

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Type Repository 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) Original description

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 -- 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. (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 -- 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. -- 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

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

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2022-10-18	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021w
2017-11-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Lotz, 2017a