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

Loxosceles aphrasta Wang, 1994

SPECIES | NOMEN DUBIUM

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002664

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Described:

Distribution: China

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University (HNU), Changsha, China f (lost) - (Lin, 2024)
Allotype: College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University (HNU), Changsha, China m (lost) - (Lin, 2024)
Paratype: College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University (HNU), Changsha, China 3f 5j (lost) - (Lin, 2024)

Taxonomic References

Loxosceles aphrasta Wang, 1994e: 13, f. 1-2 (Dmf) Original description

Loxosceles aphrasta Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 49, f. 19K, O (mf)

Loxosceles aphrasta Yin et al., 2012: 146, f. 19a-b (mf)

Loxosceles aphrasta Lin, 2024: 44 (nomen dubium, types lost, not identifiable, locus typicus too vague)

References

Lin, Y. J. (2024). Taxonomy notes on twenty-five spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) from China. The Indochina Entomologist 1(6): 35-48. doi: 10.70590/ice.2024.01.06 -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa

Wang, J. F. (1994e). Two new species of spiders of the genus Loxosceles from China. Journal of Hebei Normal University (nat. Sci. Ed.) 1994(Suppl.): 13-15. -- Show included taxa

Yin, C. M., Peng, X. J., Yan, H. M., Bao, Y. H., Xu, X., Tang, G., Zhou, Q. S. & Liu, P. (2012). Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China. Hunan Science and Technology Press Changsha, 1590 pp. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2024-10-29	Taxon is nomen dubium	Lin, 2024		Loxosceles aphrasta Wang, 1994 declared a nomen dubium
2024-10-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Lin, 2024