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 7cf1fed4-397f-4cdc-8720-5fdf220ebf63 1175-5326 1040541 723F3227-A214-43F8-B598-CD7DFDB8B48B 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 ).