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]

Holconia
Holconia hirsuta, female
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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)
Species

9, see text

List of species

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As of September 2019, it contains nine species that are found widespread in Western Australia:[1][citation needed]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.