Gippsicola

Gippsicola
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Segestriidae
Genus:	Gippsicola Hogg, 1900[1]
Type species
G. raleighi Hogg, 1900
Species
4, see text

Gippsicola is a genus of Australian tube dwelling spiders that was first described by Henry Roughton Hogg in 1900.[2] It is no longer considered a junior synonym of Segestria[3][4] due to anatomical differences in the pedipalps of males and the receptaculum in females.[5]

Species

As of September 2019^[update] it contains four species, found in New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland:[1]

• Gippsicola lineata Giroti & Brescovit, 2017 – Australia (Queensland)
• Gippsicola minuta Giroti & Brescovit, 2017 – Australia (Queensland)
• Gippsicola raleighi Hogg, 1900 (type) – Australia (Western, South, Victoria)
• Gippsicola robusta Giroti & Brescovit, 2017 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)

See also

• List of Segestriidae species

References

1. "Gen. Gippsicola Hogg, 1900". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
2. Hogg, H. R. (1900). "A contribution to our knowledge of the spiders of Victoria: including some new species and genera". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 13: 68–123.
3. Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I. (1985). "A review of the austral spider family Orsolobidae (Arachnida, Araneae), with notes on the superfamily Dysderoidea". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 181: 213, 227.
4. Davies, V. T. (1985). "Araneomorphae (in part)". Zoological Catalogue of Australia. 3: 109.
5. Giroti, André Marsola; Brescovit, Antonio Domingos (2017). "Revision of the spider genus Gippsicola Hogg, 1900 (Araneae: Segestriidae)". Zootaxa. 4227 (3): 390–406. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4227.3.6. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 28187576.