World Spider Catalog

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

Loxosceles accepta Chamberlin, 1920

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002657

Permalink: https://wsc.nmbe.ch/lsid/urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002657

Described:

Distribution: Peru

External Resources*: GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m (15955) - (Magalhaes, 2025)
Paratype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 1m 3f 1jf 24j (15691-15692) - (Magalhaes, 2025)

Taxonomic References

Loxosceles accepta Chamberlin, 1920b: 39, pl. 4, f. 4-5 (Dmf) Original description

Loxosceles accepta Gertsch, 1967a: 158, pl. 9, f. 1-2, 7-8 (mf)

Loxosceles accepta Magalhaes, 2025: 23, f. 8c, 13a-f, h-k (mf)

References

Chamberlin, R. V. (1920b). South American Arachnida, chiefly from the Guano Islands of Peru. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences 3: 35-44. -- Show included taxa

Gertsch, W. J. (1967a). The spider genus Loxosceles in South America (Araneae, Scytodidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 136: 117-174. -- Show included taxa

Magalhaes, I. L. F. (2025). A new large violin spider from Argentina, with a discussion on the homology and evolution of female genital structures in Loxosceles (Araneae Sicariidae). Invertebrate Systematics 39(5, IS24079): 1-25. doi: 10.1071/IS24079 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

* Disclaimer
As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-05-15	New taxonomic reference entry	Magalhaes, 2025