Gippsicola
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| Gippsicola | |
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| G. robusta | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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 | |
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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]
