Charinus africanus Hansen, 1921

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Charinus africanus

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:1b11a29a-99b4-4777-8d46-23b5c16ef56e


Taxonomic references

Charinus africanus Hansen:

Hansen, 1921: 7–9, plate 1, figs. 1a–c original description
Hansen, 1930: 374, plate 14, fig. 6a
Mello-Leitão, 1931: 54
Weygoldt, 1972a: 123
Delle Cave, 1986: 156, fig. II
Weygoldt, 1999c: 104
Weygoldt, 2000b: 346
Harvey, 2003c: 4
Weygoldt, 2008: 224–226, 229, figs. 1–3
Miranda, Aharon, Gavish-Regev, Giupponi and Wizen, 2016: 3
Miranda, Giupponi, Prendini and Scharff, 2021: 145–146, 148, figs. 83–88, table 6
Crews and Esposito, 2022: 282

Not Charinus seychellarum Kraepelin:

Fage, 1939b: 154–155 (misidentification, in part, see Charinus fagei Weygoldt, 1972)

Distribution
Distribution table

Realm: Africa

Equatorial Guinea
São Tomé and Príncipe
Type locality: Annobón, Annobón, Equatorial Guinea.
Agũa Izé, São Tomé, São Tomé and Príncipe.
Vista Alegre (as Visto Alegre), São Tomé, São Tomé and Príncipe.
Roca Infante Don Henrique, Príncipe, São Tomé and Príncipe.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Annobón -1.416658 5.633292
2 Agũa Izé 0.218267 6.727164
3 Vista Alegre 0.311933 6.684611
4 Príncipe 1.565978 7.404808
Type repository
  • Syntype Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen (ZMUC), Copenhagen, Denmark 2 females (ZMUC 24552); from Annobón
  • Syntype Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 1 male, 1 specimen; from Annobón
  • Syntype Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 1 male; from Agũa Izé
  • Syntype Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen (ZMUC), Copenhagen, Denmark 3 (?) females; from Vista Alegre
  • Syntype undefined 7 specimens; from Príncipe
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:DB2378B3-1DF0-4E59-BE2A-29973DAE554B

References

Delle Cave, L. (1986). Biospeleology of the Somaliland Amblypygi (Arachnida, Chelicerata) of the caves of the Showli Berdi and Mugdile (Bardera, Somaliland). Redia 69: 143–170. -- Show included taxa

Fage, L. (1939b). Les Pédipalpes Africains du genre Charinus à propos d'une espèce nouvelle du Fouta-Djalon: Charinus milloti, n. sp.. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 44: 153–160. -- Show included taxa

Hansen, H.J. (1921). The Pedipalpi, Ricinulei, and Opiliones (exc. Op. Laniatores) collected by Mr. Leonardo Fea in tropical West Africa and adjacent islands. In: Studies on Arthropoda Gyldendalske Boghandel, Kjøbenhavn 1: 1–55. -- Show included taxa

Hansen, H.J. (1930). On the comparative morphology of the appendages in the Arthropoda. B. Crustacea (supplement), Insecta, Myriopoda, and Arachnida. In: Studies on Arthropoda Gyldendalske Boghandel, Kjøbenhavn 3: 1–376. -- 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

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

Miranda, G.S., Aharon, S., Gavish-Regev, E., Giupponi, A.P.L. & Wizen, G. (2016). A new species of Charinus Simon, 1892 (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae) from Israel and new records of C. ioanniticus (Kritscher, 1959). European Journal of Entomology 234: 1–17. -- Show included taxa

Weygoldt, P. (1972a). Charontidae (Amblypygi) aus Brasilien. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 99: 107–132. -- Show included taxa

Weygoldt, P. (1999c). Spermatophores and the evolution of female genitalia in whip spiders (Chelicerata, Amblypygi). Journal of Arachnology 27: 103–116. -- Show included taxa

Weygoldt, P. (2000b). African whip spiders. Synopsis of the Amblypygi reported from Africa (Arachnida). Memorie della Societé Entomologica Italiana, Supplemento 78: 339–359. -- Show included taxa

Weygoldt, P. (2008). Spermatophores, female genitalia, and courtship behaviour of two whip spider species, Charinus africanus and Damon tibialis (Chelicerata: Amblypygi). Zoologischer Anzeiger 247: 223–232. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2007.12.002 -- Show included taxa

Miranda, Gustavo S., Giupponi, A.P. de L., Prendini, L. & Scharff, Nikolaj (2021). Systematic revision of the pantropical whip spider family Charinidae Quintero, 1986 (Arachnida, Amblypygi). European Journal of Taxonomy 772: 1–409. doi: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2021.772.1505 -- Show included taxa

Crews, S.C. & Esposito, L.A. (2022). A checklist of the arachnids from the Gulf of Guinea islands (excluding ticks and mites). In: Ceríaco, M.P., de Lima, R.F., Melo, M., Bell, R.C. Biodiversity of the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands Springer, Cham: 273-293. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06153-0 -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2024-05-13 Species updated Old value
2024-05-13 Taxonomic reference update
2024-05-13 Taxonomic reference update Fage, 1939
2024-05-13 Species updated Old value
2024-05-13 Species updated Old value
2024-03-15 Species updated Old value
2024-03-12 Taxonomic reference update Miranda, Giupponi, Prendini and Scharff, 2021
2024-03-11 Species updated Old value
2024-03-06 Taxonomic reference update Miranda, Giupponi, Prendini and Scharff, 2021
2024-03-06 Taxonomic reference update Delle Cave, 1986
2024-03-06 Taxonomic reference update Weygoldt, 2008
2024-03-06 Taxonomic reference update Hansen, 1930
2024-03-06 Taxonomic reference update Hansen, 1921
2024-03-06 Taxonomic reference update Hansen, 1921
2024-03-06 Taxonomic reference update
2024-03-06 Species updated Old value
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2024-02-06 Species updated Old value
2024-02-06 Species updated Old value
2024-02-06 Species updated Old value
2024-02-05 Taxonomic reference update Hansen, 1930
2024-02-05 Taxonomic reference update Hansen, 1921
2024-02-05 Taxonomic reference update Miranda, Giupponi, Prendini and Scharff, 2021
2024-02-05 Taxonomic reference update Weygoldt, 2008
2024-02-05 Taxonomic reference update Delle Cave, 1986
2024-02-05 Taxonomic reference update Hansen, 1930
2024-02-05 Taxonomic reference update Hansen, 1921
2022-10-24 New taxonomic reference entry Crews and Esposito, 2022
2022-03-29 Taxonomic reference update Miranda, Giupponi, Prendini and Scharff, 2021
2022-03-29 New taxonomic reference entry Miranda, Giupponi, Prendini and Scharff, 2021
2022-03-29 Species updated Old value