Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 10:55 pm Post subject: Great info ON LOXOSCELES ANOMALA (MELLO-LEITÃO)
Hello All,
Steven this is very nice info.
here is and abstract.
The genus Loxosceles Heineken & Lowe, 1832 comprises 100 species (Platnick,
2004) which are commonly known as brown spiders (“aranha-marrom”
in Brazil), recluse spiders or violin spiders.
Gertsch (1967) reviewed the South American species of Loxosceles,
dividing them in four nominal groups based on morphological characters of
the genitalia: gaucho group, laeta group, amazonica group and spadicea
group. Mello-Leitão (1917) described the genus Calheirosia in the family
Leptonetidae including two species from Brazil, the type-species C.
anomala, collected in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, and C. immodesta,
from São Paulo, São Paulo. Brignoli (1978) transferred this genus to Sicariidae
and sinonymized it with Loxosceles. As Gertsch (1967) reviewed the
genus Loxosceles before Brignoli studied Calheirosia, both species were not
included in Gertsch’s work.
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