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<journal-id>2072-9294</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Journal of the Selva Andina Research Society]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[J. Selva Andina Res. Soc.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2072-9294</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Órgano oficial de la:SELVA ANDINA RESEARCH SOCIETY]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S2072-92942025000100021</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.36610/j.jsars.2025.160100021</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Presencia del género Loxosceles en los municipios de San Benito y Tolata Cochabamba-Bolivia]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Presence of the genus Loxosceles in the municipalities of San Benito and Tolata Cochabamba-Bolivia]]></article-title>
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<surname><![CDATA[Humboldt-Paputsachis]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Ciro]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Duran Alba]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[David José]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Ministerio de Salud y Deportes Instituto Nacional de Laboratorios de Salud ¨Néstor Morales Villazón¨ (INLASA) Laboratorio de Producción de Inmunoglobulinas]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[La Paz ]]></addr-line>
<country>Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2025</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2025</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>16</volume>
<numero>1</numero>
<fpage>21</fpage>
<lpage>27</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.bo/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2072-92942025000100021&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.bo/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2072-92942025000100021&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.bo/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2072-92942025000100021&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen El género Loxosceles está ampliamente distribuido en los cinco continentes, en América Latina se reportaron y describieron a L. laeta,L. reclusa,L. gaucho y L. intermedia en países colindantes a Bolivia. El género Loxosceles es de importancia medica por la peligrosidad de su veneno para la salud humana, ocasionan cuadros de loxoscelismo, condición que puede desencadenar consecuencias graves y letales, En el estudio, se identificaron especímenes de los municipios de San Benito y Tolata del departamento de Cochabamba-Bolivia. Tras la revisión taxonómica, fueron catalogados como Loxosceles, con estos datos se aumenta la distribución geográfica del género para Bolivia. Siendo importante debido al riesgo para la salud de los habitantes de la región en áreas urbanas y periurbanas por lo que se recomienda la realización de estudios para ampliar datos para su identificación.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract The genus Loxosceles is widely distributed in the five continents. In Latin America, L. laeta,L. reclusa,L. gaucho and L. intermedia were reported and described in countries adjacent to Bolivia. The genus Loxosceles is of medical importance due to the dangerousness of its venom for human health, causing loxoscelismo, a condition that can have serious and lethal consequences. In the study, specimens were identified from the municipalities of San Benito and Tolata in the department of Cochabamba-Bolivia. After taxonomic revision, they were catalogued as Loxosceles, which increases the geographical distribution of the genus for Bolivia. This is important due to the health risk to the inhabitants of the region in urban and peri-urban areas, and it is therefore recommended that further studies be carried out to expand the data for their identification.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Loxosceles]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[arácnidos]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Cochabamba]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Tolata]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[San Benito]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Loxosceles]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[arachnids]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Cochabamba]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Tolata]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[San Benito]]></kwd>
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