Damon diadema (Simon, 1876)

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Phrynus diadema

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:32503cec-46aa-4e2d-83b3-96f7a9859085


Taxonomic references

Phrynus diadema Simon:

Simon, 1876: 13 original description

Damon diadema (Simon):

Simon, 1892a: 50
Pocock, 1898f: 431
Hirst, 1911c: 8
Mello-Leitão, 1931: 38
Wolf, 1938: 536
Fage, 1939a: 109, figs. 5c, 6
Fage, 1954: 181, fig. 2
Vandel, 1965: 94
Lawrence, 1969b: 86
Delle Cave, 1975a: 176–183, figs. 1–11
Delle Cave, 1975b: 203–210, figs. 1–21
Delle Cave and Simonetta, 1975: 153–157
Weygoldt and Hoffmann, 1995: 2–5, figs. 1–4, 16–20, 28, 31–32
Weygoldt, 1995a: 77, figs. 2, 5, 8, 10, 14
Weygoldt, 1996a: n/a, figs. 11, 30, 38, 43–44, 49
Weygoldt, 1999a: 21–24, figs. 38–44, 54 (designated a neotype)
Weygoldt, 1999c: n/a, figs. 26–29
Weygoldt, 2000a: n/a, figs. 13, 21, 24, 59–62, 106, 137–138, 145–146, 236–241, 245–246, 265–266, 289, 293
Weygoldt, 2000b: 342, 346, figs. 11, 13, 15–17
Harvey, 2003c: 11–12
Walsh, Otovic and Rayor, 2004: 9
Prendini, Weygoldt and Wheeler, 2005: 206, figs. 1, 11
Rayor and Taylor, 2006: 399–418, figs. 5–3, 15–18, 20
Walsh and Rayor, 2008: 336–342, figs. 1–3
Ovchinnikov and Masta, 2012: 3–14, fig. 4
Seiter and Hörweg, 2014: 50, 53
Réveillion, Montuire, Maquart, Fétiveau and Bollache, 2021: 1005, table 1

Damon diadema diadema (Simon):

Harvey, 2003c: 12

Nanodamon diadema (Simon):

Pocock, 1894d: 293

Not Damon variegatus (Perty):

Kraepelin, 1895: 18 (misidentification)
Kraepelin, 1899a: 239–240 (misidentification, in part)
Caporiacco, 1937a: 142 (misidentification)

Distribution
Distribution table
Ethiopia
Kenya
Somalia
Tanzania
Yemen
Type locality: Shimoni Cave, near Shimoni, ca. 80 km S. of Mombasa, Kwale, Kenya.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Shimoni -4.65 39.383333
Type repository
  • Neotype Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany Male
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:F47940C5-58BA-4D17-A8D8-352BE55C14CB

References

Caporiacco, L. di (1937a). Scorpioni, Pedipalpi, Solifugi e Chernetidi di Somalia e Dancalia. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 58: 135–149. -- Show included taxa

Delle Cave, L. (1975a). The "cleaning brush" in Damon daidema Simon, 1876 and Phrynichus jayakari Pocock, 1894 (Amblypygi Arachnida). Monitore Zoologico Italiano, n.s. 9: 175–184. -- Show included taxa

Delle Cave, L. (1975b). On some sense organs on the first pair of legs of Damon diadema Simon, 1876 (Amblypygi Arachnida). Monitore Zoologico Italiano, n.s. 9: 203–211. -- Show included taxa

Delle Cave, L. & Simonetta, A.M. (1975). Taxonomic notes on the Amblypygi (Arachnida Chelicerata) from Ethiopia and Somalia. Monitore Zoologico Italiano, n.s., Supplemento 6: 141–166. -- Show included taxa

Fage, L. (1939a). Sur une phryne du Sud Marocain pourvue d'un appareil stridulent Musicodamon atlanteus, n. gen., nov. sp.. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 64: 100–114. -- 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

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

Hirst, S. (1911c). On a collection of Arachnida and Chilopoda, made by Mr. S.A. Neave in Rhodesia, north of the Zambezi.. Memoirs and Proceedings of Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 56(2): 1–11. -- 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

Lawrence, R.F. (1969b). A collection of African Amblypygi with keys to the subfamilies, genera and species of the Ethiopian fauna. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 80: 80–87. -- 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

Ovchinnikov, S. & Masta, S.E. (2012). Pseudoscorpion mitochondria show rearranged genes and genome-wide reductions of RNA gene sizes and inferred structures, yet typical nucleotide composition bias. BMC Evolutionary Biology 12: 31. -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R.I. (1894d). Notes on the Pedipalpi of the family Tarantulidae contained in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 14: 273–298. -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R.I. (1898f). The Arachnida from the regions of Lakes Nyasa and Tanganyika contained in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 2: 429–448. -- 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

Rayor, L.S. & Taylor, L.A. (2006). Social behavior in amblypygids, and a reassessment of arachnid social patterns. Journal of Arachnology 34: 399–421. doi: https://doi.org/10.1636/S04-23.1 -- 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

Simon, E. (1876). Étude sur les Arachnides du Congo. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 1: 12–15, 215–224. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1892a). Arachnides. In Raffray, A., Bolivar, I. and Simon, E., Etude sur les Arthropodes cavernicoles de île Luzon, Voyage de M. E. Simon aux îles Philippines (Mars et avril 1890). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 61: 35–52. -- Show included taxa

Vandel, A. (1965). Biospeleology: the biology of cavernicolous animals. Pergamon Press, Edinburgh. [authorized translation] -- Show included taxa

Walsh, R., Otovic, P. & Rayor, L. (2004). The role of the whip in social, predatory, and investigative behavior in an amblypygid (Damon diadema: Phrynichidae). American Arachnology 68: 9. -- Show included taxa

Walsh, R.E. & Rayor, L.S. (2008). Kin discrimination in the amblypygid, Damon diadema. Journal of Arachnology 36: 336–343. doi: https://doi.org/10.1636/CSt07-138.1 -- Show included taxa

Weygoldt, P. (1995a). The development of the phrynichid "hand": notes on allometric growth and introduction of the new generic name Euphrynichus (Arachnida, Amblypygi). Zoologischer Anzeiger 234: 75–84. -- Show included taxa

Weygoldt, P. (1996a). Evolutionary morphology of whip spiders: towards a phylogenetic system (Chelicerata: Arachnida: Amblypygi). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolution Research 34: 185–202. -- 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. (1999c). Spermatophores and the evolution of female genitalia in whip spiders (Chelicerata, Amblypygi). Journal of Arachnology 27: 103–116. -- Show included taxa

Weygoldt, P. (2000a). Whip spiders (Chelicerata: Amblypygi). Their biology, morphology and systematics. Apollo Books, Stenstrup. -- 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. & Hoffmann, P. (1995). Reproductive behavior, spermatophores, and female genitalia in the whip spiders Damon diadema (Simon, 1876), Phrynichus cf. ceylonicus (C.L. Koch, 1843) and Euphrynichus alluaudi (Simon, 1936) (Chelicerata: Amblypygi). Zoologischer Anzeiger 234: 1–18. -- Show included taxa

Wolf, B. (1938). Animalium cavernarum catalogus. Junk, Gravenhage 3. -- Show included taxa

Réveillion, F., Montuire, S., Maquart, P.-O., Fétiveau, C. & Bollache, L. (2021). Variations in the carapace shape of whip spiders (Arachnida: Amblypygi). Journal of Morphology 283: 1003-1014. doi: DOI: 10.1002/jmor.21485 -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2024-07-05 New taxonomic reference entry Harvey, 2003
2024-06-06 Species updated Old value
2024-06-06 Species updated Old value
2024-06-06 Taxonomic reference update Weygoldt, 1999
2024-06-06 Species updated Old value
2024-05-04 Taxonomic reference update
2024-03-18 Species updated Old value
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Réveillion, Montuire, Maquart, Fétiveau and Bollache, 2021
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Ovchinnikov and Masta, 2012
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Walsh and Rayor, 2008
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Rayor and Taylor, 2006
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, 2000
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Weygoldt, 1999
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Weygoldt, 1999
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Weygoldt, 1996
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Weygoldt, 1995
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Weygoldt and Hoffmann, 1995
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Delle Cave, 1975
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Delle Cave, 1975
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Fage, 1954
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Fage, 1939
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update
2024-03-18 Species updated Old value
2022-09-08 New taxonomic reference entry Réveillion, Montuire, Maquart, Fétiveau and Bollache, 2021