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Issue: Vol. 4227 No. 3: 3 Feb. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-02-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4227.3.6
Page range: 390–406
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Revision of the spider genus Gippsicola Hogg, 1900 (Araneae: Segestriidae)

Laboratório Especial de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan. Avenida Vital Brasil 1500, 05503-900 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Laboratório Especial de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan. Avenida Vital Brasil 1500, 05503-900 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Araneae Haplogynae Synspermiata Dysderoidea Australia taxonomy

Abstract

Gippsicola Hogg is one of the four genera included in the family Segestriidae. Currently this monotypic Australian genus is represented by Gippsicola raleighi Hogg, 1900, a species described based on an immature specimen from Victoria, Australia. In this work we present a taxonomic revision of this genus, with an elucidative diagnosis, redescribing G. raleighi based on detailed morphologic characters of adult male specimens. Also, we are describing three new species: Gippsicola robusta n. sp. and G. lineata n. sp., both represented by males and females, and G. minuta n. sp., only known by the male. We provide some enlightenment on the systematics of Gippsicola and putative synapomorphies for the subfamily Segestriinae.

 

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