Damon sylviae Prendini, Weygoldt and Wheeler, 2005

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Damon sylviae

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:710bf914-59d8-4a29-a4cf-c8e31c77353c


Genus type of Damon C.L. Koch, 1850

Taxonomic references

Damon sylviae Prendini, Weygoldt and Wheeler:

Prendini, Weygoldt and Wheeler, 2005: 225–227, figs. 10–13, 15–18, 30 original description

Not Damon variegatus (Perty):

Lampe, 1918: 206 (misidentification)
Fage, 1951: 12–13 (misidentification, in part)
Fage, 1954: 180–181 (misidentification, in part)
Lawrence, 1955: 260 (misidentification, in part)
Weygoldt, 1999a: 35–37, 62–64, 75, figs. 11, 13 (misidentification, in part)
Weygoldt, 2000a: n/a, figs. 67, 155, 263–264, 293 (misidentification, in part)

Distribution
Distribution table
Namibia
Type locality: Obab Cave, Farm Obab 856, Grootfontein District, Otjozondjupa, Namibia.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Farm Obab -19.166667 17.116667
Type repository
  • Holotype Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany Male
  • Paratype Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany 2 females, same locality as holotype
References

Fage, L. (1951). Pedipalpes (Amblypyges) récoltés en Angola par M. A. de Barros Machado. Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, Publiçacões Culturais 13: 9–17. -- Show included taxa

Fage, L. (1954). Remarques sur la distribution géographique des Pédipalpes Amblypyges africains, accompagnées de la description d'une espèce nouvelle de Madagascar: Charinus madagascariensis, nov. sp.. Annales du Musée du Congo Belge, Sciences Zoologiques 1: 180–184. -- Show included taxa

Lampe, E. (1918). Katalog der Skorpione, Pedipalpen und Solifugen des Naturhistorischen Museums in der Residenzstadt Wiesbaden. Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 70: 185–208. -- Show included taxa

Lawrence, R.F. (1955). Solifugae, scorpions and Pedipalpi, with checklists and keys to South African families, genera and species. In: South African animal life. Results of the Lund Expedition in 1950-1951 Almquist and Wiksell, Stockholm 1: 152–262. -- Show included taxa

Prendini, L., Weygoldt, P. & Wheeler, W.C. (2005). Systematics of the Damon variegatus group of African whip spiders (Chelicerata: Amblypygi): evidence from behaviour, morphology and DNA. Organisms, Diversity and Evolution 5: 203–236. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ode.2004.12.004 -- Show included taxa

Weygoldt, P. (1999a). Revision of the genus Damon C.L. Koch, 1850 (Chelicerata: Amblypygi: Phrynichidae). Zoologica, Stuttgart 150: 1–45. -- Show included taxa

Weygoldt, P. (2000a). Whip spiders (Chelicerata: Amblypygi). Their biology, morphology and systematics. Apollo Books, Stenstrup. -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2024-05-04 Taxonomic reference update
2024-04-16 Taxonomic reference update Weygoldt, 2000
2024-04-16 Taxonomic reference update Weygoldt, 1999
2024-04-16 Taxonomic reference update Lawrence, 1955
2024-04-16 Taxonomic reference update Fage, 1954
2024-04-16 Taxonomic reference update Fage, 1951
2024-04-16 Taxonomic reference update Lampe, 1918
2024-04-16 Taxonomic reference update Perty, 1833
2024-04-16 New taxonomic reference entry Perty, 1833
2024-04-16 Taxonomic reference update Weygoldt, 2000
2024-04-16 Taxonomic reference update Lawrence, 1955
2024-04-16 Taxonomic reference update Weygoldt, 1999
2024-04-16 Taxonomic reference update Fage, 1954
2024-04-16 Taxonomic reference update Fage, 1951
2024-04-16 Taxonomic reference update Lampe, 1918
2024-03-18 Species updated Old value
2024-03-18 Species updated Old value
2024-03-18 Species updated Old value
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Prendini, Weygoldt and Wheeler, 2005
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Weygoldt, 2000
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Weygoldt, 1999
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update
2024-03-18 Species updated Old value