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2009-07-29

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A new species of Loxosceles (Araneae, Sicariidae) from Tunisia

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A new species of the spider genus Loxosceles, L. mrazig sp. n., found in Tunisia is described and illustrated. The male bulb shows a high degree of morphological similarity to that of L. gaucho from Brazil, but the pro- portions of the palpal segments and the general colouration of the body reveal significant differences between the two species. A distance analysis of the sequences of the mitochondrial gene cox1 reveals that the specimen from Tunisia shows high genetic distance from L. gaucho (more than 20%). The American species L. gaucho and L. laeta form a sister group to the Mediterranean representatives (L. rufescens and the Tunisian specimen). Taxonomy, Araneae, Loxosceles, new species, Tunisia.

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Aranyes, Aràcnids, Taxonomia zoològica, Tunísia

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Spiders, Arachnida, Zoological taxonomy, Tunisia

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RIBERA ALMERJE, Carles and PLANAS FIGUERAS, Enric. A new species of Loxosceles (Araneae, Sicariidae) from Tunisia. ZooKeys. 2009. Vol. 16, num. 217-225. ISSN 1313-2989. [consulted: 12 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/33808

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