Phrynus gervaisii (Pocock, 1894)

SPECIES |   SYNONYM

Original combination: Tarantula Gervaisii

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:e53fd023-10e7-4a67-b369-6b9edabdacd2


Taxonomic references

Not Phrynus palmatus Herbst:

Koch, 1840: 13–15, fig. 601 (misidentification)

Tarantula gervaisii Pocock:

Pocock, 1894d: 285–286, plate 7, figs. 5, 5a original description

Neophrynus palmatus (Herbst):

Kraepelin, 1895: 30 (in part)

Tarantula palmata (Herbst):

Kraepelin, 1899a: 233–244 (in part)

Phrynus gervaisii (Pocock):

Mello-Leitão, 1931: 41
Werner, 1935a: n/a, fig. 139–140, 144–145
Quintero, 1981: 147–150, figs. 84–89, 113, 147–148, 152, 167, map 2
Homann, 1985: 70
LeClerc, McClain, Black and Jorgensen, 1987: 129–130
Weygoldt, 1994: 245
Ávila Calvo and Armas, 1997: 32
Armas, 1999b: 29
Peretti, 2002: 588–599, figs. 1–10
Weygoldt, 2002d: 299
Harvey, 2003c: 27
Armas, 2004b: 41
Chiriví Joya and Armas, 2012: 398–400, figs. 2, 4a–f
Armas and Seiter, 2013: 128-129 (synonymised with Phrynus barbadensis (Pocock, 1893))
Seiter and Hörweg, 2014: 50

Distribution
Distribution table
Colombia
Costa Rica
Ecuador (mainland)
Guyana
Panama
Trinidad and Tobago
Venezuela
Type locality: Magdalena, Colombia.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Magdalena (IMPRECISE) 10 -74.5
Type repository
  • Holotype British Museum of Natural History (BMNH) (= NHM, Natural History Museum), London, UK Male
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:703DAA2D-50B8-4B9E-841B-BE40AC58D866

References

Armas, L.F. de (1999b). Ampliación del área de distribución de algunos Phrynus (Amblypygi: Phrynidae) y Centruroides (Scorpiones: Buthidae) de América Central y las Antillas. Cocuyo 3: 29–30. -- Show included taxa

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

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

Koch, C.L. (1840). Die Arachniden. Getreu nach der Natur Abgebildet und Beschrieben. C.H. Zeh'schen, Nürnberg 8. -- 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

LeClerc, M.G., McClain, D.C., Black, H.L. & Jorgensen, C.D. (1987). An inquiline relationship between the tailless whip-scorpion Phrynus gervaisii and the giant tropical ant Paraponera clavata. Journal of Arachnology 15: 129–130. -- 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

Peretti, A.V. (2002). Courtship and sperm transfer in the whip spider Phrynus gervaisii (Amblypygi, Phrynidae): a complement to Weygoldt's 1977 paper. Journal of Arachnology 30: 588–600. doi: https://doi.org/10.1636/0161-8202(2002)030[0588:CASTIT]2.0.CO;2 -- 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

Quintero, D., Jr (1981). The amblypygid genus Phrynus in the Americas (Amblypygi, Phrynidae). Journal of Arachnology 9: 117–166. -- 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

Werner, F. (1935a). Klasse: Arachnoidea, Spinnentiere. Pedipalpen. In: Bronns, H.G. (ed.) Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig 5(IV)(8)(3): 317–490. -- 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. (2002d). Amblypygi. In: Adis, J. (ed.) Amazonian Arachnida and Myriapoda Pensoft Publishers, Sofia: 293–302. -- Show included taxa

Armas, L.F. de & Seiter, M. (2013). Phrynus gervaisii (Pocock, 1894) is a junior synonym of Phrynus barbadensis (Pocock, 1893) (Amblypygi: Phrynidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnologia 23: 128–132. -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2024-04-24 Taxonomic reference update Armas and Seiter, 2013
2024-04-24 New taxonomic reference entry Armas and Seiter, 2013
2024-04-24 Species updated Old value
2024-03-29 Taxonomic reference update Chiriví Joya and Armas, 2012
2024-03-29 Taxonomic reference update Peretti, 2002
2024-03-29 Taxonomic reference update Quintero, 1981
2024-03-29 Taxonomic reference update Werner, 1935
2024-03-29 Taxonomic reference update Pocock, 1894
2024-03-29 Taxonomic reference update Koch, 1840
2024-03-29 Taxonomic reference update
2024-03-29 Taxonomic reference update
2024-03-29 Species updated Old value