Paraphrynus laevifrons (Pocock, 1894)

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Tarantula laevifrons

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:e2c7d4ef-6eec-4769-9d93-559059660f3d


Genus type of Paraphrynus Moreno, 1940

Taxonomic references

Tarantula laevifrons Pocock:

Pocock, 1894d: 279–280, plate 7, figs. 1, 1a original description

Neophrynus fuscimanus (C.L. Koch):

Kraepelin, 1895: 25 (in part)

Tarantula fuscimana (C.L. Koch):

Kraepelin, 1899a: 243 (in part)

Hemiphrynus laevifrons (Pocock):

Pocock, 1902c: 55–56, plate 11, figs. 4, 4a
Mello-Leitão, 1931: 45
Torres and Heatwole, 1967: 546–557, fig. 1

Paraphrynus laevifrons (Pocock):

Roewer, 1954b: 60–61
Mullinex, 1975: 20–23, figs. 18, 19a–g, 20a–e
Quintero, 1975: 161, fig. 1
Quintero, 1979a: 5–11, plate 1–6, fig. 1
Homann, 1985: 70
Maes, Palacios Vargas and Jimenez, 1989: 5
Weygoldt, 1994: 244
Ávila Calvo and Armas, 1997: 31
Armas and Maes, 2000: 41, figs. 1a–e, 4
Weygoldt, 2002a: 145, figs. 26–28
Harvey, 2003c: 23–24
Armas, 2004b: 40
Víquez and Armas, 2009: 541, fig. 2
Chiriví Joya and Armas, 2012: 396, figs. 1a–d, 2
Seiter and Hörweg, 2014: 50, 53
Armas, Trujillo and Agreda, 2018: 58, figs. 3, 6a–c, table I

Distribution
Distribution table
Colombia
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Nicaragua
Panama
Type locality: west coast of America (probably Ecuador or Colombia).

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Ecuador/Colombia (IMPRECISE) 1 -78
Type repository
  • Holotype British Museum of Natural History (BMNH) (= NHM, Natural History Museum), London, UK Female
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:845C1522-DE1A-49DD-B61B-30DE7177F5D9

References

Armas, L.F. de (2004b). Arácnidos de República Dominicana. Palpigradi, Schizomida, Solifugae y Thelyphonida (Chelicerata: Arachnida). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, especial monográfico 2: 1–64. -- Show included taxa

Armas, L.F. de & Maes, J.-M. (2000). Los amblipígidos de Nicaragua (Arachnida: Amblypygi). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 1: 39–44. -- Show included taxa

Ávila Calvo, A.F. & Armas, L.F. de (1997). Lista de los amblipígidos (Arachnida: Amblypygi) de México, Centroamérica y las Antillas. Cocuyo 6: 31–32. -- Show included taxa

Chiriví Joya, D. & Armas, L.F. de (2012). La subfamilia Phryninae (Amblypygi: Phrynidae) en Colombia. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 50: 395–402. -- Show included taxa

Harvey, M.S. (2003c). Catalogue of the smaller arachnid orders of the world: Amblypygi, Uropygi, Schizomida, Palpigradi, Ricinulei and Solifugae. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne. -- Show included taxa

Homann, H. (1985). Die Cheliceren der Araneae, Amblypygi und Uropygi mit dem Skleriten, den Plagulae (Chelicerata, Arachnomorpha). Zoomorphology 105: 69–75. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00312140 -- Show included taxa

Kraepelin, K. (1895). Revision der Tarantuliden Fabr.. Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg 13(3): 3–53. -- Show included taxa

Kraepelin, K. (1899a). Scorpiones und Pedipalpi. Tierreich 8: i–xviii, 1–265. -- Show included taxa

Maes, J.-M., Palacios Vargas, J.G. & Jimenez, M.L. (1989). Catalogo de los artropodos terrestres no insectes. Revista Nicaraguense de Entomologia 7: 1–55. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. (1931). Pedipalpos do Brasil e algumas notas sobre a ordem. Archivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 33: 8–72. -- Show included taxa

Mullinex, C.L. (1975). Revision of Paraphrynus Moreno (Amblypygida: Phrynidae) for North America and the Antilles. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 116: 1–80. -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R.I. (1894d). Notes on the Pedipalpi of the family Tarantulidae contained in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 14: 273–298. -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R.I. (1902c). Arachnida: Scorpiones, Pedipalpi, and Solifugae. In: Godman, F.D. and Salvin, O. (ed.) Biologia Centrali-Americana Taylor and Francis, London 3: 1–71. -- Show included taxa

Quintero, D., Jr (1975). Scanning electron microscope observations on the tarsi of the legs of the amblypygids (Arachnida, Amblypygi). In: Proceedings of the 6th International Arachnological Congress Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam, Amsterdam: 161–163. -- Show included taxa

Quintero, D., Jr (1979a). Comportamiento ritualistico: amenaza y sumisión en Paraphrynus laevifrons (Pocock) (Amblypygi: Phrynidae) de Panama. Cuadernos de Ciencias, Editorial Universitaria Panama 3: 5–14. -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C.F. (1954b). Spinnentiere aus El Salvador, I. (Arachnoidea: Pedipalpi, Solifuga, Opiliones-Laniatores). Senckenbergiana Biologica 35: 57–73. -- Show included taxa

Seiter, M. & Hörweg, C. (2014). The whip spider collection (Arachnida, Amblypygi) held in the Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 46: 47–53. -- Show included taxa

Torres, F. & Heatwole, H. (1967). Orientation of some scorpions and tailless whip-scorpions. Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie 24: 546–557. -- Show included taxa

Víquez, C. & Armas, L.F. de (2009). Parasitismo en huevos de amblipígidos (Arachnida: Amblypygi) por moscas Chloropidae (Insecta: Diptera). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 45: 541–542. -- Show included taxa

Weygoldt, P. (1994). Amblypygi. In: Juberthie, C. and Decu, V. (ed.) Encyclopaedia biospeologica Société de Biospéologie, Moulis and Bucarest 1: 241–247. -- Show included taxa

Weygoldt, P. (2002a). Sperm transfer and spermatophore morphology of the whip spiders Sarax buxtoni, S. brachydactylus (Charinidae), Charon cf. grayi, and Stygophrynus brevispina nov. spec. (Charontidae) (Chelicerata, Amblypygi). Zoologischer Anzeiger 241: 131–148. doi: https://doi.org/10.1078/S0044-5231(04)70069-8 -- Show included taxa

Armas, L.F. de, Trujillo, R.E. & Agreda, E.O. (2018). Sinopsis de los Amblipigios de Guatemala (Arachnida: Amblypygi). Revista Ibérica de Aracnologia 32: 55–72. -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2024-04-20 Species updated Old value
2024-04-06 New taxonomic reference entry Armas, Trujillo and Agreda, 2018
2024-03-26 Species updated Old value
2024-03-26 Taxonomic reference update Chiriví Joya and Armas, 2012
2024-03-26 Taxonomic reference update Víquez and Armas, 2009
2024-03-26 Taxonomic reference update Weygoldt, 2002
2024-03-26 Taxonomic reference update Armas and Maes, 2000
2024-03-26 Taxonomic reference update Quintero, 1979
2024-03-26 Taxonomic reference update Quintero, 1975
2024-03-26 Taxonomic reference update Mullinex, 1975
2024-03-26 Taxonomic reference update Torres and Heatwole, 1967
2024-03-26 Taxonomic reference update Pocock, 1902
2024-03-26 Taxonomic reference update Pocock, 1894
2024-03-26 Taxonomic reference update
2024-03-26 Species updated Old value