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

Hexophthalma damarensis Lawrence, 1928

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002758

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Described:

Distribution: Namibia

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa f (7057) - (Lotz, 2012)
Holotype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa f (7057) - (Lotz, 2018)

Taxonomic References

Sicarius damarensis Lawrence, 1928: 221 (Df) Original description

Sicarius damarensis Lotz, 2012: 4, f. 2B, 3B, 4B (f, Dm)

Hexophthalma damarensis Magalhães, Brescovit & Santos, 2017: 852 (T from Sicarius)

Hexophthalma damarensis Lotz, 2018: 9, f. 9, 19 (mf)

References

Lawrence, R. F. (1928). Contributions to a knowledge of the fauna of South-West Africa VII. Arachnida (Part 2). Annals of the South African Museum 25: 217-312, pl. 21-24. -- 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

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2018-04-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Lotz, 2018
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