Family: Sicariidae Keyserling,1880 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0110] Back
Gen.
Loxosceles Heineken & Lowe ,
1832 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00325 ]
N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Calheirosia Mello-Leitão, 1917 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04655], type C. anomala Mello-Leitão, 1917, by Brignoli, 1978a: 18, and of Loxoscella Strand, 1906, type L. pallidecolorata Strand, 1906 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04158], by Gertsch & Ennik, 1983: 278; the spelling Lososcelis is an invalid emendation.
Status:
accepted
Last updated
2020-08-19
2020-08-19
Described in
Lowe, 1832: 321 (type Loxosceles citigrada Heineken & Lowe, 1832; gender feminine; syn. of Loxosceles rufescens (Dufour, 1820))
Lowe, 1832: 321 (type Loxosceles citigrada Heineken & Lowe, 1832; gender feminine; syn. of Loxosceles rufescens (Dufour, 1820))
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Species counts
| Counts | Status |
| 140 | accepted |
| 13 | synonym |
| 1 | nomen nudum |
| 4 | nomen dubium |
Reference
Edit history
Lowe, R. T. (1832). Descriptions of two species of Araneidae, natives of Madeira. The Zoological Journal 5: 320-323. 
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