An update on the spider genus Loxosceles (Araneae: Sicariidae) in the Afrotropical region, with description of seven new species Lotz, L. N. Zootaxa 2017 2017-11-02 4341 4 475 494 6QNJ6 Lotz 2017 [151,463,1255,1281] Arachnida Sicariidae Loxosceles GBIF Animalia Araneae 7 482 Arthropoda species makapanensis     Types. ♀ HOLOTYpEfROM SOUTH AfRIcA: LIMpOpO PROvINcE, MAkApAN VALLEY, FIcUS CAvE, 24°04’S, 29°15’E, W. MARAIS LEG,  11.IV.2006(AcAT 2005/1372).  PARATYpE: 1♀fROM SOUTH AfRIcA: LIMpOpO PROvINcE, MIkE’S CAvE, 24°07’S, 29°14’E, K. dE WET LEG,  4.X.2002(AcAT 2005/1367).   Etymology.THE SpEcIfIc NAME IS A NOUN IN AppOSITION dERIvEd fROM THE TYpELOcALITY.   Diagnosis.FEMALE SpERMATHEcAE cONSIST Of TWO SMALL ROUNd SAcS ON SHORT cOpULATORY TUbE THAT pROcEEd ANTERIORLY ANd MEdIALLY; SpERMATHEcAE ANd cOpULATORY TUbES SITUATEd IN THE bOOk-LUNG AREA; THE SpEcIES IS SIMILAR TO  L. parramaeIN HAvING THE SpERMATHEcAE ANd cOpULATORY TUbES IN THE bOOk-LUNG AREA, bUT dIffER IN HAvING TWO SEpARATE cOpULATORY TUbES ON EAcH SIdE ( FIG. 26).   Description. Female: (N = 2): TL = 5.70 (5.6–5.8); CL = 2.35 (2.1–2.6); CW = 2.10 (1.9–2.3); CLL = 0.33 (0.25–0.4). AME-LE 0.15; LARGEST EYE dIAMETER 0.12. CARApAcE YELLOW, SLIGHTLY dARkER pARS cEpHALIcA ANd ALONG THE EdGES; STERNUM LIGHT YELLOW; LEGS YELLOW; pALpS MOSTLY LIGHT YELLOW, WITH dARkER TARSUS. AbdOMEN LIGHT YELLOW. INTERNAL GENITALIA WITH TWO, vERY SHORT, MEdIALLY pROcEEdING cOpULATORY TUbES ON EAcH SIdE, NExT TO EAcH OTHER AT THE bASE, ENdING IN SMALL SpERMATHEcAE, SLIGHTLY LARGER IN dIAMETER THAN THE TUbES ( FIG. 26). LEG fORMULA IV:II:I:III. LEG MEASUREMENTS: I: fEMUR 5.5, pATELLA 0.9, TIbIA 5.7, METATARSUS 5.7, TARSUS 1.2, TOTAL 19.0; II: 5.6, 0.9, 5.6, 5.7, 1.2, 19.0; III: 4.8, 0.9, 4.8, 4.9, 1.0, 16.4; IV: 5.6, 0.9, 5.2, 6.2, 1.2, 19.1. PALp: fEMUR 0.8, pATELLA 0.3, TIbIA 0.6, cYMbIUM 1.0, TOTAL 2.7.  Male: UNkNOWN.  Natural History.COLLEcTEd fROM SAvANNA, fROM THE dARk zONE IN cAvES.   Distribution. NORTHERN  SOUTHAfRIcA( FIG. 40). 1677458013 2006-04-11 MARAIS, LEG South Africa -24.066668 LIMpOpO PROvINcE 1253 29.25 7 482 2 1 LIMpOpO PROvINcE holotype 1677458000 2002-10-04 WET, LEG South Africa -24.116667 LIMpOpO PROvINcE 1252 29.233334 7 482 1 1 LIMpOpO PROvINcE paratype