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

Loxosceles spinulosa Purcell, 1904

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002740

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Described:

Distribution: South Africa

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Holotype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa f (ENW-X007915) - (Lotz, 2012)

Taxonomic References

Loxosceles spinulosa Purcell, 1904: 140 (Df) Original description

Loxosceles spinulosa Newlands, 1975: 144, f. 2-3, 5, 8, 10-13 (Dm, f) [f. 4 (m) = L. pilosa per Lotz, 2017: 485]

Loxosceles spinulosa Lotz, 2012: 34, f. 9L, 10K (mf)

Loxosceles spinulosa Lotz, 2017a: 491, f. 17, 36 (mf)

Loxosceles spinulosa Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021w: 22, 6 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

Purcell, W. F. (1904). Descriptions of new genera and species of South African spiders. Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society 15: 115-173, pl. 10-11. -- 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
2017-11-02	Taxonomic reference update		Old value
2017-03-13	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon	Lotz, 2012		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Loxosceles simillima Lawrence, 1927