Paraphrynus mexicanus (Bilimek, 1867)

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Phrynus mexicanus

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:91879157-8682-4347-b1c8-95aeb9648464


Taxonomic references

Phrynus mexicanus Bilimek:

Bilimek, 1867: 905–906 original description

Neophrynus fuscimanus (C.L. Koch):

Kraepelin, 1895: 25 (in part)

Tarantula fuscimana (C.L. Koch):

Kraepelin, 1899a: 243 (in part)

Paraphrynus mexicanus (Bilimek):

Mullinex, 1975: 30–32, figs. 29a–I (in part; see Paraphrynus carolynae Armas, 2012 and Paraphrynus cubensis Quintero, 1983)
Palacios-Vargas, 1981: 64 (as Paraphrinus [sic] mexicanus)
Reddell, 1981: n/a, fig. 24
Palacios-Vargas, 1983: 56
Palacios-Vargas and Morales-Malacara, 1983: 166
Palacios-Vargas, Vasquez and Morales-Malacara, 1985: 139
Weygoldt, 1994: 244
Vázquez-Rojas, 1995: 29
Vázquez Rojas, 1996d: 72
Wismann, 1996: 65–68 (as Paraphrynus neomexicanus [sic])
Ávila Calvo and Armas, 1997: 31
Harvey, 2003c: 24
Armas, 2012: 31–32, figs. 3d–f, g, 4a–f
Seiter and Hörweg, 2014: 50, 51, 53
Dunlop, Harvey and Poinar, 2015: 201–202
Seiter, Lerma, Král, Sember, Divišová, Vargas, Colmenares, Loria and Prendini, 2020: 265-283


Synonyms
Phrynus cacahuamilpensis Herrera, 1892 -- synonymised by Garcia Acosta, 1977: 30
LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:ff899e88-4965-4b01-9997-4238c0e7f853
Phrynus cacahuamilpensis Herrera:
Herrera, 1892: 219, plate 3, figs. 1–6 original description
Garcia Acosta, 1977: 30 (synonymised with Paraphrynus mexicanus (Bilimek, 1867))
Distribution
Distribution table
Mexico
Type locality: Grutas de Cacahuamilpa (as Cuevas Cacahuamilpa), Guerrero, Mexico.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Grutas de Cacahuamilpa 18.683333 -99.5
Type repository
  • Syntype Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (NHMW), Vienna, Austria 2 males (NHMW 1446)
  • Syntype Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (NHMW), Vienna, Austria 1 juvenile, same locality as syntypes (NHMW 1447) [not mentioned in the original description]
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:B731FFA8-102A-4E83-8AF1-7F93DC673140

References

Armas, L.F. de (2012). Nueva especie de Paraphrynus Moreno, 1940 (Amblypygi: Phrynidae) de México y el suroeste de los EE.UU. de América. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 21: 27–32. -- 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

Bilimek, D. (1867). Fauna der Grotte Cacahuamilpa in Mexiko. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Geselschaft in Wien 17: 901–908. -- Show included taxa

Garcia Acosta, R. (1977). Révision de los Amblipígidos de México (Arachnida: Amblypygi). Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. [Tesis] -- 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

Herrera, D.A.L. (1892). Fauna cavernícola. Memorias y Revista de la Sociedad Científica 'Antonio Alzate' 5: 218–220. -- 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

Mullinex, C.L. (1975). Revision of Paraphrynus Moreno (Amblypygida: Phrynidae) for North America and the Antilles. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 116: 1–80. -- Show included taxa

Palacios-Vargas, J.G. (1981). Los artrópodes de la gruta de Acuitlapan, Gro.. Folia Entomologica Mexicana, XVI Congreso Nacional de Entomologia 48: 64–65. -- Show included taxa

Palacios-Vargas, J.G. (1983). Microartrópodos de la Gruta de Aguacachil, Guerrero, Mexico. Anales de la Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologicas, Mexico 27: 55–60. -- Show included taxa

Palacios-Vargas, J.G. & Morales-Malacara, J.B. (1983). Biocenosis de algunas cuevas de Morelos. Mémoires de Biospéologie 10: 163–169. -- Show included taxa

Palacios-Vargas, J.G., Vasquez, I.M. & Morales-Malacara, J.B. (1985). Aspectos faunisticos y ecologicos de la Gruta de Juxtlahuaca, Gro., Mexico. Mémoires de Biospéologie 12: 135–142. -- Show included taxa

Reddell, J.R. (1981). A review of the cavernicole fauna of Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. Bulletin of the Texas Memorial Museum 27: 1–327. -- 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

Vázquez Rojas, I. (1996d). Amblypygi. In: Llorente Bousquets, J.E., García Aldrete, A.N. and González Soriano, E. (ed.) Biodiversidad, taxonomía y biogeografía de artrópodos de México: hacia una síntesis de su conocimiento Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, D.F.: 71–73. -- Show included taxa

Vázquez-Rojas, I. (1995). Los aracnidos de Mexico parte 1: Ricinulei, Amblypygi, Solifugae, Palpigradi, Schizomida, Uropygi. Dugesiana 2: 15–37. -- 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

Wismann, K. (1996). The Arizona tailless whipscorpion Paraphrynus neomexicanus in the field and in captivity. In: 1996 Invertebrates in Captivity Conference: August 1-4, 1996, Tucson, Arizona Sonoran Arthropod Studies Institute, Tucson: 65–68. -- Show included taxa

Seiter, M., Lerma, A. Z. R., Král, J., Sember, A., Divišová, K., Vargas, P., Colmenares, P., Loria, S. F. & Prendini, L. (2020). Cryptic diversity in the whip spider genus Paraphrynus (Amblypygi: Phrynidae): integrating morphology, karyotype and DNA. Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny 78: 265–285. doi: http://doi.org/10.26049/ASP78-2-2020-04 -- Show included taxa

Dunlop, J.A., Harvey, M.S. & Poinar, G.O., Jr (2015). Case 3687. Phrynus mexicanus Poinar & Brown, 2004 (Arachnida, Amblypygi, PHRYNIDAE): proposed conservation of the specific name as a junior primary homonym of Phrynus mexicanus Bilimek, 1867. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 72(3): 201–203. -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2024-05-06 Taxonomic reference update Mullinex, 1975
2024-04-24 New taxonomic reference entry Dunlop, Harvey and Poinar, 2015
2024-03-26 Species updated Old value
2024-03-26 Taxonomic reference update Armas, 2012
2024-03-26 Taxonomic reference update Reddell, 1981
2024-03-26 Taxonomic reference update Mullinex, 1975
2024-03-26 Taxonomic reference update
2024-03-26 Species updated Old value
2022-04-15 Taxonomic reference update Seiter, Lerma, Král, Sember, Divišová, Vargas, Colmenares, Loria and Prendini, 2020
2022-04-15 Taxonomic reference update Seiter, Lerma, Král, Sember, Divišová, Vargas, Colmenares, Loria and Prendini, 2020
2022-04-15 New taxonomic reference entry Seiter, Lerma, Král, Sember, Divišová, Vargas, Colmenares, Loria and Prendini, 2020