An update on the spider genus Loxosceles (Araneae: Sicariidae) in the Afrotropical region, with description of seven new species
Author
Lotz, L. N.
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-11-02
4341
4
475
494
journal article
31653
10.11646/zootaxa.4341.4.2
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Loxosceles pilosa
Purcell, 1908
(
FIGS 11
,
30
)
Loxosceles pilosa
Purcell, 1908
: 225
;
Newlands, 1986
: 68
, f. 40–42;
Lotz, 2012
: 27
.
Loxosceles spinulosa
—
Newlands, 1975
: 144
, f. 4 (misidentified).
Note.
SEE NOTE UNdER
L. bergeri
.
Specimens
studied.
NAMIbIA
:
1♀
, KARASbURG,
NORTH
Of
RTZ cAMp pLAINS,
28°37’S
,
17°49’E
,
15.IV.1997
, E
.
GRIFFIN LEG
. (
SMN
43620);
SOUTH
AFRICA
:
NORTHERN
CAPE PROVINCE
,
1♂
, COBOOP DUNES, 28°45’S, 19°21’E,
16– 25.III.1988
, J. IRISH & E. MARAIS LEG. (SMN 42 164);
♀
LECTOTYPE
AND
1♀
PARALECTOTYPE
, LITTLE NAMAqUALAND, STEINKOPF, [
29°15’S
,
17°44’E
],
VII–VIII.1904
, L. SCHULTzE
LEG
. (
SAM
X 1
50512)
;
1♂
AND 3
IMM
., STEINKOPF, [
29°15’S
,
17°44’E
],
III.1935
, cOLLEcTOR UNkNOWN (
SAM
B8498).
Natural History.
COLLEcTEd fROM NAMA KAROO, fROM pITfALL TRApS ANd UNdER ROckS.
Distribution.
SOUTHERN
NAMIbIA
ANd
NORTH-WESTERN
SOUTH
AfRIcA
(
FIG. 38
).