Holconia

Holconia is a genus of South Pacific huntsman spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1877.[2] It was branched from Isopeda in 1990.[3]

Holconia
H. hirsuta, female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Sparassidae
Genus:	Holconia Thorell, 1877[1]
Type species
H. insignis (Thorell, 1870)
Species
9, see text

Species

As of September 2019 it contains nine species, found in Australia:[1]

• Holconia colberti Hirst, 1991 – Australia (Victoria)
• Holconia flindersi Hirst, 1991 – Australia (South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales)
• Holconia hirsuta (L. Koch, 1875) – Australia (Queensland)
• Holconia immanis (L. Koch, 1867) – Australia
• Holconia insignis (Thorell, 1870) (type) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
• Holconia murrayensis Hirst, 1991 – Australia (South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales)
• Holconia neglecta Hirst, 1991 – Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory)
• Holconia nigrigularis (Simon, 1908) – Australia
• Holconia westralia Hirst, 1991 – Australia (Western Australia)

See also

• List of Sparassidae species

References

1. "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.