Holconia
| Holconia | |
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| Holconia hirsuta, female | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Sparassidae |
| Genus: | Holconia Thorell, 1877[1] |
| Type species | |
| H. insignis (T. D. Thorell, 1870)
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| Species | |
|
9, see text | |
Holconia is a genus of Southern Pacific huntsman spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Dahls Thorell in 1877.[2] It was branched from Isopeda in 1990.[3]
List of species
[edit]As of September 2019[update], it contains nine species that are found widespread in Western Australia:[1][citation needed]
- Holconia colberti Hirst, 1991 – Australia (Victoria), Colbert's huntsman
- Holconia flindersi Hirst, 1991 – Australia (South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales), Flinders's banded huntsman
- Holconia hirsuta (Ludwig Koch, 1875) – Australia (Queensland), northern banded huntsman
- Holconia immanis (Ludwig Koch, 1867) – Australia, banded huntsman
- Holconia insignis (T. D. Thorell, 1870) (type) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales), giant huntsman
- Holconia murrayensis Hirst, 1991 – Australia (South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales), Murray banded huntsman
- Holconia neglecta Hirst, 1991 – Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory), Neglecta's banded huntsman
- Holconia nigrigularis (Simon, 1908) – Australia, giant gray huntsman
- Holconia westralia Hirst, 1991 – Australia (Western Australia), West Australia banded huntsman
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Holconia Thorell, 1877". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
- ^ Thorell, T. (1877). "Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. I. Ragni di Selebes raccolti nel 1874 dal Dott. O. Beccari". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (in Italian). 10: 341–637.
- ^ Hirst, D. B. (1990). "A review of the genus Isopeda L. Koch (Heteropodidae: Araneae) in Australasia with descriptions of two new genera". Records of the South Australian Museum. 24 (1): 17.