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Loxosceles rufescens

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Loxosceles rufescens (Dufour, 1820)

(FIGS 12, 31)

Scytodes rufescens Dufour, 1820: 203, pl. 76, f. 5; Audouin, 1826: 379, pl. 5, f. 2.

Loxosceles citigrada Heineken & Lowe, in Lowe, 1832: 322, pl. 48, f. 1–14.

Scytodes erythrocephala C. L. Koch, 1838: 90, f. 399–400.

Scytodes distincta Lucas, 1846: 104, pl. 2, f. 4.

Omosita rufescens — Simon, 1864: 50.

Scytodes pallida — Blackwall, 1865: 100 (misidentified).

Loxosceles erythrocephala — Simon, 1873: 38; Pavesi, 1876: 435; Simon, 1914: 75, f. 127.

Loxosceles rufescens — Simon, 1873: 38; Bösenberg & Strand, 1906: 113, pl. 6, f. 69, pl. 16, f. 450; Simon, 1914: 75, f. 126;. Strand, 1918: 91, pl. 2, f. 28–29; Petrunkevitch, 1929: 108, f. 92–96; Bristowe, 1938: 311, f. 6; Comstock, 1940: 108, f. 96; Yaginuma, 1940: 129, f. 3; Gertsch, 1958: 31, f. 60–62, 73; Bücherl, 1961: 213, f. 2a; Lee, 1966: 24, f. 5a–d; Gertsch, 1967: 144, pl. 10, f. 5–8; Brignoli, 1969: 156, f. 19–62; Canese, 1972: 83, f. 1; Brignoli, 1976: 144, f. 9–10; Paik, 1978: 572, f. 6–13; Yin, Wang & Hu, 1983: 33, f. 1B, 3B; Gertsch & Ennik, 1983: 353, f. 341–343, 348–351; Lehtinen, 1986: 153, f. 4–5, 7; Yaginuma, 1986: 18, f. 12.1; 1987: 155, f. 20.9; Xu, 1987: 3, f. 4A–D; Chen & Gao, 1990: 37, f. 39a–b; Chen & Zhang, 1991: 68, f. 60.1–3; Dunin, 1992: 75, f. 1, 5, 10–12; Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 49, f. 19M–N, Q; Namkung, 2002: 30, f. 2.1a–c; Saaristo, 2002: 29, f. 84–86; Namkung, 2003: 30, f. 2.1a–c; Ono, 2009: 122, f. 1–6; Le Peru, 2011: 111, f. 112; Labarque & Ramírez, 2012: 3, f. 2E, 5A-B, 8A-B, 9E, 10E, 11E, 12E, 13E, 14E, 15E, 16E, 17E, 18E, 19E, 20D-E, 27C-F, 28A-F, 30C-D, 31E; Lotz, 2012: 29; Yin et al., 2012: 148, f. 21a-d; Mirshamsi, Hatami & Zamani, 2013: 83, f. 1-4; Zamani & Rafinejad, 2014: 229, f. 2-4; Zamani et al., 2014: 58, f. 1A-B; Chomphuphuang et al., 2016: 143, f. 3- 5, 8-9; Sadeghi, Dashan & Malek-Hossein, 2017: 157, f. 2-4.

Spermophora comoroensis — Butler, 1879: 43, pl. I, f. 5.

Loxosceles compactilis — Simon, 1881: 6.

Loxosceles distincta — Simon, 1908: 422.

Loxosceles marylandicus — Muma, 1944: 2, f. 1.

Loxosceles indrabeles — Tikader, 1963: 23, f. 1a–c. Loxosceles ruescens — Yoo & Kim, 2002: 25, f. 4.

Specimens studied. SOUTH AfRIcA: WESTERN CApE PROvINcE, 1♂, CApE TOWN, [33°56’S, 18°28’E], 26.IX.1914, R. TUckER LEG. (SAM B370).

Natural History. COLLEcTEd IN SOUTH AfRIcA fROM INSIdE bUILdINGS. Distribution. Loxosceles rufescens IS A cOSMOpOLITAN SpEcIES; IN SOUTH AfRIcA SO fAR ONLY kNOWN fROM CApE TOWN (FIG. 39).

Notes

Published as part of Lotz, L. N., 2017, An update on the spider genus Loxosceles (Araneae: Sicariidae) in the Afrotropical region, with description of seven new species, pp. 475-494 in Zootaxa 4341 (4) on pages 485-486, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4341.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1040541

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Biodiversity

Collection code
SAM , TOWN, LEG
Event date
1914-09-26
Verbatim event date
1914-09-26
Scientific name authorship
Dufour
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Sicariidae
Genus
Loxosceles
Species
rufescens
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Loxosceles rufescens (Dufour, 1820) sec. Lotz, 2017

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