Loxosceles Heineken & Lowe, 1832

Duperre, Nadine, Harms, Danilo, Crespo-Perez, Veronica & Tapia, Elicio, 2024, Two new species of the spider genus Loxosceles (Araneae, Sicariidae) from the Ecuadorian Andes, Evolutionary Systematics 8 (1), pp. 1-14 : 1

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scientific name	Loxosceles Heineken & Lowe, 1832
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Genus Loxosceles Heineken & Lowe, 1832 View in CoL View at ENA

Type species.

Loxosceles citigrada Heineken & Lowe, 1832.

Diagnosis.

Members of the genus Loxosceles are distinguished from all other Sicariidae , Sicarius and Hexophthalma , by the absence of soil-adhering setae and a large colulus, soil-adhering setae present and large colulus absent in the latter genera ( Magalhaes et al. 2017).

Description.

(For complete description see Gertsch 1967). Medium-sized spiders (6-12 mm); two tarsal claws; ecribellate; haplogyne; six-eyes in three diads; chelicerae with stridulatory files; stridulatory pick at base of palpal femur.

Composition.

143 species ( World Spider Catalog 2023), plus the two new species herein described: L. binfordae sp. nov. and L. guayllabamba sp. nov.

Distribution.

Americas, Southern Africa, the Mediterranean region, and South Europe.