Two new species of the spider genus Loxosceles (Araneae, Sicariidae) from the Ecuadorian Andes

By

Dupérré, N. (Nadine),
Harms, Danilo
Crespo-Pérez, Verónica
Tapia, Elicio

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2024-1-10

Original Publication

Evolutionary systematics

Volume

8

Series / Issue

Issue: 1

Pages

1--14

Subjects

diversity , South America , synonymy , Synspermiata , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Hamburg Centrum für Naturkunde (CeNak) 2017-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.8.107213

 

Abstract

Two new species of the spider genus Loxosceles (Araneae: Sicariidae) from the Ecuadorian Andes are described: Loxosceles guayllabambasp. nov. (male, female) and Loxosceles binfordaesp. nov. (male, female). Both species are part of the second most speciose “laeta” group, which include twenty-four described species. Only three species are known to occur on mainland Ecuador, and one species in the Galapagos. The synonymy of L. alicea under L. rufescens is rejected, detailed SEM of the female internal genitalia and a map of all the species from mainland Ecuador are presented.