Garypus titanius Beier, 1961

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Garypus titanius

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:7d539af8-09ff-459c-8571-81d660905b22


Taxonomic references

Garypus titanius

Beier, 1961c: 594–595, fig. 1 original description
Duffey, 1964: 241, 250, fig. 6
Kaestner, 1968: 207 (as Garypus titaneus [sic])
Harvey, 1991a: 242
Ashmole and Ashmole, 1997: 566, 579, fig. 8
Judson, 1997a: 43–44
Coddington and Colwell, 2001: 212
Turienzo, Iorio and Mahnert, 2010: 561, 589
Sherwood, Grignet, Harvey, Sharp, Wilkins, Ashmole and Ashmole, 2024: 138–140, figs 6A–F

Distribution
Distribution table

Realm: Afrotropic

St. Helena (Ascension Island)
Type locality: Boatswainbird (Bos'nbird) Island, Ascension Island, Saint Helena.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Boatswainbird Island -7.933333 -14.316666
Type repository
  • Syntypes: BMNH, NHMW
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:5C5E4CAE-060F-4C3F-966E-A123B6D916F1

References

Ashmole, N.P. & Ashmole, M.J. (1997). The land fauna of Ascension Island: new data from caves and lava flows, and a reconstruction of the prehistoric ecosystem. Journal of Biogeography 24: 549–589. -- Show included taxa

Beier, M. (1961c). Pseudoscorpione von der Insel Ascension. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (13) 3: 593–598. -- Show included taxa

Coddington, J.A. & Colwell, R.K. (2001). Arachnids. In: Levin, S.A. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Biodiversity Academic Press, San Diego 1: 199–218. -- Show included taxa

Duffey, E. (1964). The terrestrial ecology of Ascencion Island. Journal of Applied Ecology 1: 219–251. -- Show included taxa

Harvey, M.S. (1991a). Catalogue of the Pseudoscorpionida. Manchester University Press, Manchester. -- Show included taxa

Judson, M.L.I. (1997a). Catalogue of the pseudoscorpion types (Arachnida: Chelonethi) in the Natural History Museum, London. Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology 11: 1–54. -- Show included taxa

Kaestner, A. (1968). Arthropod relatives, Chelicerata, Myriapoda. In: Invertebrate zoology John Wiley & Sons, New York 2. -- Show included taxa

Turienzo, P., Iorio, O. di & Mahnert, V. (2010). Global checklist of pseudoscorpions (Arachnida) found in birds’ nests. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 117: 557–598. -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D., Grignet, V., Harvey, M.S., Sharp, A., Wilkins, V., Ashmole, M. & Ashmole, P. (2024). David and Goliath: on the pseudoscorpions of Ascension Island, including the world’s largest, Garypus titanius Beier, 1961, and a new, minute, Neocheiridium Beier, 1932 (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones). Natura Somogyiensis 42: 131–150. -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2024-05-04 New taxonomic reference entry Sherwood, Grignet, Harvey, Sharp, Wilkins, Ashmole and Ashmole, 2024