Genus Holconia Thorell, 1877

Museums

Regional Maps

• Holconia Thorell, T. 1877. Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. I. Ragi di Selebes raccolti nel 1874 dal Dott. O. Beccari. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 10: 341-634 [485].

  Type species:

   Voconia insignis Thorell, 1870 by original designation, see 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 (Adelaide) 24: 11-26.

Introduction

Hirst (1990) split the genus Isopeda into three genera, Isopeda, Isopedella, and Holconia. Recent phylogenetic analyses conducted by Agnarsson & Rayor (2013) and Gorneau et al. (2022) have demonstrated that while the three genera do form a clade, the genera as currently defined, are not monophyletic. Gorneau et al. (2022) recognises that on the current analyses, synonymy of the three genera is possible, but they have refrained from doing so as major taxonomic change was beyond the scope of the study, and they think further studies of the relationships between the three genera is necessary.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Flinders Lofty Block (FLB) ; NSW, Qld, WA: Geraldton Sandplains (GS) ; NSW, WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP) ; NT: Ord Victoria Plain (OVP) ; Qld, WA: Wet Tropics (WT) ; SA, Vic: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Murray Darling Depression (MDD) ; WA: Mallee (MAL)

General References

Agnarsson, I. & Rayor, L.S. 2013. A molecular phylogeny of the Australian huntsman spiders (Sparassidae, Deleninae): Implications for taxonomy and social behaviour. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69: 895-905

Gorneau, J.A., Rheims, C.A., Moreau, C.S. & Rayor, L.S. 2022. Huntsman spider phylogeny informs evolution of life history, egg sacs, and morphology. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 174: 107530

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 (Adelaide) 24: 11-26

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