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Toxicological Characterization and Phospholipase D Activity of the Venom of the Spider Sicarius thomisoides [PDF]

Toxins, 2020
Envenomation by Loxosceles spiders (Sicariidae family) has been thoroughly documented. However, little is known about the potential toxicity of members from the Sicarius genus.
Tomás Arán-Sekul, Ivanka Perčić-Sarmiento, Verónica Valencia, Nelly Olivero, José M. Rojas, Jorge E. Araya, Andrés Taucare-Ríos, Alejandro Catalán   +7 more
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Brown Spiders’ Phospholipases-D with Potential Therapeutic Applications: Functional Assessment of Mutant Isoforms [PDF]

Biomedicines, 2021
Phospholipases-D (PLDs) found in Loxosceles spiders’ venoms are responsible for the dermonecrosis triggered by envenomation. PLDs can also induce other local and systemic effects, such as massive inflammatory response, edema, and hemolysis.
Thaís Pereira da Silva, Fernando Jacomini de Castro, Larissa Vuitika, Nayanne Louise Costacurta Polli, Bruno César Antunes, Marianna Bóia-Ferreira, João Carlos Minozzo, Ricardo Barros Mariutti, Fernando Hitomi Matsubara, Raghuvir Krishnaswamy Arni, Ana Carolina Martins Wille, Andrea Senff-Ribeiro, Luiza Helena Gremski, Silvio Sanches Veiga   +13 more
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COMPARISON OF THE FERTILITY BETWEEN LOXOSCELES INTERMEDIA AND LOXOSCELES LAETA SPIDERS (ARANEAE, SICARIIDAE)

Journal of Arachnology, 2000
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
Wilson R Lourenço, Denise V Tambourgi
exaly   +4 more sources

Kounis Syndrome: Acute Coronary Syndrome Induced by a Loxosceles Laeta Bite in a 9-Year-Old Boy [PDF]

Case, 2022
Joaquin Berarducci
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First record on Loxosceles laeta (Nicolet, 1849) (Araneae, Sicariidae) in the West Zone of São Paulo City, São Paulo, Brazil, and considerations regarding its geographic distribution

Revista Da Sociedade Brasileira De Medicina Tropical, 2003
Loxosceles laeta spiders were captured in the West zone of São Paulo City, this being the first record of the specie in this area. Since loxoscelism is an important public health problem in the South region of Brazil, it is necessary to investigate the ...
Rute M Gonçalves-De-Andrade, Denise V Tambourgi   +1 more
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Niche modelling of the C hilean recluse spider Loxosceles laeta and araneophagic spitting spider Scytodes globula and risk for loxoscelism in C hile

Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 2016
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Mauricio Canals, Antonio D Brescovit, Lucila Moreno   +2 more
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A new species of Loxosceles Heineken & Lowe, 1832 (Araneae: Sicariidae) from Chile

Revista Chilena de Entomología, 2022
A new species of Loxosceles of the laeta species-group, L. vicentei sp. nov., found in Chile is described and illustrated. The male of this species can be distinguished from that of other species by having a long and straight embolus with a truncated tip.
Andrés Taucare-Ríos, Antonio D. Brescovit, Javier Villablanca   +2 more
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Refugia Preferences by the SpidersLoxosceles reclusaandLoxosceles laeta(Araneae: Sicariidae) [PDF]

Journal of Medical Entomology, 2008
A variety of refugia were offered to different instars of brown recluse spiders, Loxosceles reclusa Gertsch and Mulaik, and a South American recluse spider, L. laeta (Nicolet), to determine whether they preferred certain types of refugia spaces. Variables included (1) crevice widths ranging from 3.2 to 21 mm, (2) horizontal and vertical orientations ...
Richard S, Vetter, Michael K, Rust
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Loxosceles laeta

, 2017
Loxosceles laeta (Nicolet, 1849) Figs 1A, 9A, 10 Scytodes laeta Nicolet, 1849: 349 (female syntypes from Chile, supposedly deposited in MNHN, probably lost). Loxosceles laeta – Simon 1900: 49. — Gertsch 1967: 147–152, pl. 6, figs 1–9, pl. 7, figs 1–5, 8–9 (full synonymy list). — World Spider Catalog 2017. Diagnosis Loxosceles laeta could be confused in
Brescovit, Antonio D., Taucare-Ríos, Andrés, Magalhaes, Ivan L. F., Santos, Adalberto J.   +3 more
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Primeiro registro sinantrópico de Loxosceles laeta (Nicolet, 1849) (Araneae, Sicariidae) no Município do Rio de Janeiro, Estado do Rio de Janeiro First synanthropic record of Loxosceles laeta (Nicolet, 1849) (Araneae, Sicariidae) in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2009
Loxosceles laeta é a espécie de aranha-marrom de maior importância médica, causando acidentes de maior gravidade, além de apresentar hábito sinantrópico.
Adriano Lima Silveira
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