Mastigoproctus tohono Barrales-Alcalá, Francke and Prendini, 2018

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Mastigoproctus tohono

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:3cf51924-8423-4b01-81fb-232d494b8f84


Taxonomic references

Mastigoproctus tohono Barrales-Alcalá, Francke and Prendini:

Barrales-Alcalá, Francke and Prendini, 2018: 42-45, fig. 18a-d, table 4 original description
Schmidt and Schmidt, 2022: 267-276

Not Mastigoproctus giganteus (Lucas):

Wood, 1863b: 374
Banks, 1900: 422 (part)
Kraepelin, 1899a: 224 (part)
Comstock, 1913: 19, fig. 14
Eisner, Meinwald, Monro and Ghent, 1961: 272-297, figs 1-22
Savory, 1964a: 166 (part)
Lawrence, 1969c: 125, 130
Ahearn, 1970: 339-351, figs 1-6
Crawford and Cloudsley-Thompson, 1971: 99-106, fig. 1
Cloudsley-Thompson, 1975: 266, 273-274
Muma, 1975b: 262
Crawford, 1981: 21, 35-36, 56, 59, 78, 86, 134, 137, 215, fig. 12c
Vasta and Cohen, 1984: 334-340
Cloudsley-Thompson, 1986: 30
Barnes, 1987: 508, figs 13-15, 16a-b
Coddington, Larcher and Cokendolpher, 1990: 11 (part)
Crawford, 1990a: 434, fig. 16.5 (part)
Shultz, 1991: 13-31, figs 5c, 7-11
Shultz, 1992b: 314-328, figs 1a, 2-3
Shultz, 1993: 335-365, figs 1, 2a-c, 3a-b, 4a-d, 5a-b, 6, 7a-b, 8, 9a-b
Schmidt, Dani, Jones and Morgan, 2000: 443-450
Schmidt, 2003: 11
Punzo, 2007: 66-72
Beccaloni, 2009: 111 (part)
Carrel and Britt, 2009: 500-502, figs 1-4 (part)
Hembree, 2013: 141-162 (part)
Vasta and Marchalonis, 1983: 160-161, 165
McMonigle, 2013: 100, unnumbered (part)
Smith and Courter, 2015: 2603-2618, fig. 5
Monjaraz-Ruedas, Francke, Cruz-López and Santibáñez-López, 2016: 118-134, fig. 6a-b (part)
Kern and Mitchell, 2011: 2,4, figs 1-5 (part)

Distribution
Distribution table

Realm: North America

US (Arizona)
Type locality: Portal, Cochise County, Arizona, U.S.A.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 31.913397 -109.144353
Type repository
  • Holotype American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, NY, USA Male
  • Paratype American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA Female, same data as holotype
  • Paratype American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, NY, USA 2 females, from South-western Research Station, 5 mi. W Portal
References

Ahearn, G.A. (1970). Water balance in the whipscorpion, Mastigoproctus giganteus (Lucas) (Arachnida, Uropygi). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 35: 339–353. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-406X(70)90600-6 -- Show included taxa

Banks, N. (1900). Synopses of North-American invertebrates. IX. The scorpions, solpugids and pedipalpi. American Naturalist 34: 421–427. -- Show included taxa

Barnes, R.D. (1987). Invertebrate zoology. Saunders College Publishing, Philadelphia, etc.. [fifth edition] -- Show included taxa

Beccaloni, J. (2009). Arachnids. Natural History Museum, London. -- Show included taxa

Carrel, J.E. & Britt, E.J. (2009). The whip scorpion, Mastigoproctus giganteus (Uropygi: Thelyphonidae), preys on the chemically defended Florida scrub millipede, Floridobolus penneri (Spirobolida: Floridobolidae). Florida Entomologist 92: 500–502. doi: https://doi.org/10.1653/024.092.0313 -- Show included taxa

Cloudsley-Thompson, J.L. (1975). Adaptations of Arthropoda to arid environnments. Annual Review of Entomology 20: 261–283. -- Show included taxa

Cloudsley-Thompson, J.L. (1986). Desert adaptations in arachnids. In: Eberhard, W.G., Lubin, Y.D. and Robinson, B.C. (ed.) Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Arachnology, Panama 1983 Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.: 29–32. -- Show included taxa

Coddington, J.A., Larcher, S.F. & Cokendolpher, J.C. (1990). The systematic status of Arachnida, exclusive of Acari, in North America north of Mexico. In: Kosztarab, M. and Schaefer, C.W. (ed.) Systematics of the North American insects and arachnids: status and needs Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg: 5–20. -- Show included taxa

Comstock, J.H. (1913). The spider book. Doubleday, Page and Co., New York. -- Show included taxa

Crawford, C.S. (1981). Biology of desert invertebrates. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. -- Show included taxa

Crawford, C.S. (1990a). Scorpions, Solifugae, and associated desert taxa. In: Dindal, D.L. (ed.) Soil biology guide John Wiley and Sons, New York: 421–475. -- Show included taxa

Crawford, C.S. & Cloudsley-Thompson, J.L. (1971). Water relations and dessication-avoiding behavior in the vinegaroon Mastigoproctus giganteus (Arachnida: Uropygi). Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 14: 99–106. -- Show included taxa

Eisner, T., Meinwald, J., Monro, A. & Ghent, R. (1961). Defense mechanisms of arthropods - I. The composition and function of the spray of the whipscorpion, Mastigoproctus giganteus (Lucas) (Arachnida: Pedipalpida). Journal of Insect Physiology 6: 272–298. -- Show included taxa

Hembree, D.I. (2013). Neoichnology of the whip scorpion Mastigoproctus giganteus: complex burrows of predatory terrestrial arthropods. Palaios 28: 141–162. -- Show included taxa

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

Lawrence, R.F. (1969c). The trichoid structures on the chelicerae of the short-tailed whip-scorpions (Schizomida; Arachnida). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 38: 123–132. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00359196909519080 -- Show included taxa

Monjaraz-Ruedas, R., Francke, O.F., Cruz-López, J.A. & Santibáñez-López, C.E. (2016). Annuli and setal patterns in the flagellum of female micro-whipscorpions (Arachnida: Schizomida): hypotheses of homology across an order. Zoologischer Anzeiger 263: 118–134. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2016.05.003 -- Show included taxa

Muma, M.H. (1975b). Long term can trapping for population analyses of ground-surface, arid-land arachnids. Florida Entomologist 58: 257–270. -- Show included taxa

Punzo, F. (2007). Microhabitat utlisation, diet composition, intraguild predation, and diel peridocity in five sympatric species of desert arachnids: a wolf spider (Hogna carolinensis), tarantula spider (Aphonopelma steindachneri), solifuge (Eremobates palpisetulosus), giant whipscorpion (Mastigoproctus giganteus), and scorpion (Diplocentrus bigbendensis). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 14: 66–73. -- Show included taxa

Savory, T.H. (1964a). Arachnida. Academic Press, London. -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, J. (2003). Who preys on the ultimate predator: life history strategies of the vineragoon, Mastigoproctus giganteus. American Arachnology 66: 11. -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, J.O., Dani, F.R., Jones, G.R. & Morgan, E.D. (2000). Chemistry, ontogeny, and role of the pygidial gland secretions of the vineragoon Mastigoproctus giganteus (Arachnida: Uropygi). Journal of Insect Physiology 46: 443–450. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-1910(99)00130-4 -- Show included taxa

Shultz, J.W. (1991). Evolution of locomotion in Arachnida: the hydraulic pressure pump of the giant whipscorpion, Mastigoproctus giganteus (Uropygi). Journal of Morphology 210: 13–31. -- Show included taxa

Shultz, J.W. (1992b). Step-coupled fluctuations in prosomal pressure may constrain stepping rates in whipscorpions (Uropygi). Journal of Arachnology 20: 148–150. -- Show included taxa

Shultz, J.W. (1993). Muscular anatomy of the giant whipscorpion Mastigoproctus giganteus (Lucas) (Arachnida: Uropygi) and its evolutionary significance. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 108: 335–365. -- Show included taxa

Vasta, G.R. & Cohen, E. (1984). Sialic acid-binding lectins in the "whip-scorpion" (Mastigoproctus giganteus) serum. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 43: 333–342. -- Show included taxa

Wood, H.C. (1863b). On the Pedipalpi of North America. Journal the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (2) 5: 357–376. -- Show included taxa

Barrales-Alcalá, D., Francke, O.F. & Prendini, L. (2018). Systematic revision of the giant vinegaroonsof the Mastigoproctus giganteus complex (Thelyphonida, Thelyphonidae) of North America. American Museum Novitates 418: 1–62. -- Show included taxa

Vasta, G.R. & Marchalonis, J.J. (1983). Humoral recognition factors in the Arthropoda. The specificity of Chelicerata serum lectins. American Zoologist 23: 157-171. -- Show included taxa

McMonigle, O. (2013). Forgotten order of the vinegaroons. Whipscorpion biology, husbandry, and natural history. Coachwhip Publications. -- Show included taxa

Smith, A.B. & Courter, J.R. (2015). The 2013 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry presented to Jerrold Meinwald, Ph. D.. Journal of the Franklin Institute 3527: 2603-2618. -- Show included taxa

Kern, W.H.J & Mitchell, R.E. (2011). Giant whip scorpion, Mastigoproctus giganteus giganteus (Lucas, 1835) (Arachnida: Thelyphonida = Uropygi: Thelyphonidae). Institute of Food and Agricultural Sci- ences, University of Florida. DPI Entomology Circular 408: 1-4. -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, J.O. & Schmidt, L.S. (2022). Vinegaroons (Uropygi: Mastigoproctus tohono) in a multi-predator/multi-prey system: Prey, predators, and cannibalism. Journal of Arachnology 50: 267–276. doi: https://doi.org/10.1636/JoA-S-21-005 -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2024-02-26 New taxonomic reference entry Schmidt and Schmidt, 2022
2023-01-05 Taxonomic reference update
2023-01-05 Taxonomic reference update
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Kern and Mitchell, 2011
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Monjaraz-Ruedas, Francke, Cruz-López and Santibáñez-López, 2016
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Smith and Courter, 2015
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry McMonigle, 2013
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Vasta and Marchalonis, 1983
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Hembree, 2013
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Carrel and Britt, 2009
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Beccaloni, 2009
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Punzo, 2007
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Schmidt, 2003
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Schmidt, Dani, Jones and Morgan, 2000
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Shultz, 1993
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Shultz, 1992
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Shultz, 1991
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Crawford, 1990
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Coddington, Larcher and Cokendolpher, 1990
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Barnes, 1987
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Cloudsley-Thompson, 1986
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Vasta and Cohen, 1984
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Crawford, 1981
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Muma, 1975
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Cloudsley-Thompson, 1975
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Crawford and Cloudsley-Thompson, 1971
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Ahearn, 1970
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Lawrence, 1969
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Savory, 1964
2023-01-05 Taxonomic reference update Eisner, Meinwald, Monro and Ghent, 1961
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Eisner, Meinwald, Monro and Ghent, 1961
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Comstock, 1913
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Kraepelin, 1899
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Banks, 1900
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Wood, 1863
2023-01-05 Species updated Old value
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Barrales-Alcalá, Francke and Prendini, 2018
2023-01-05 New species inserted