''Gippsicola'' is a
genus
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of
Australia
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n
tube dwelling spiders that was first described by
Henry Roughton Hogg
Henry Roughton Hogg (9 February 1846 – 30 November 1923) was a British amateur arachnologist and businessman who lived in both Australia and Britain.
Hogg emigrated to Australia in December 1873 and co-founded a mercantile and shipping agency ...
in 1900.
It is no longer considered a junior synonym of ''
Segestria''
due to anatomical differences in the
pedipalp
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s of males and the receptaculum in females.
Species
it contains four species, found in
New South Wales
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,
Victoria
Victoria most commonly refers to:
* Queen Victoria (1819–1901), Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India
* Victoria (state), a state of Australia
* Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, a provincial capital
* Victoria, Seychelles, the capi ...
, and
Queensland
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:
*''
Gippsicola lineata''
Giroti & Brescovit, 2017 –
Australia
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(
Queensland
Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...
)
*''
Gippsicola minuta''
Giroti & Brescovit, 2017 – Australia (Queensland)
*''
Gippsicola raleighi''
Hogg, 1900 (
type
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* ...
) – Australia (Western, South,
Victoria
Victoria most commonly refers to:
* Queen Victoria (1819–1901), Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India
* Victoria (state), a state of Australia
* Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, a provincial capital
* Victoria, Seychelles, the capi ...
)
*''
Gippsicola robusta''
Giroti & Brescovit, 2017 – Australia (Queensland,
New South Wales
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)
See also
*
List of Segestriidae species
This page lists all described genera and species of the spider family Segestriidae. , the World Spider Catalog accepts 142 species in 5 genera:
''Ariadna''
'' Ariadna'' Audouin, 1826
*'' Ariadna abbreviata'' Marsh, Stevens & Framenau, 2022 – ...
References
Araneomorphae genera
Segestriidae
Spiders of Australia
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