Phrynus tessellatus (Pocock, 1894)

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Tarantula tessellata

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:f273b1f2-4e49-4697-a205-dd92e369b72b


Taxonomic references

Not Tarantula reniformis (Linnaeus):

Pocock, 1894b: 404–407 (misidentification)

Tarantula tessellata Pocock:

Pocock, 1894c: 531–533, fig. 2 original description
Bernard, 1894d: 272, figs. 1–7 (reference uncertain)

Not Tarantula reniformis (Linnaeus):

Pocock, 1894b: 404–407 (misidentification)

Neophrynus palmatus (Herbst):

Kraepelin, 1895: 30 (in part)

Not Admetus palmatus (Herbst):

Simon, 1897: 890 (misidentification)

Not Tarantula palmata (Herbst):

Kraepelin, 1899a: 243–244 (misidentification; in part)

Phrynus spinimanus (Pocock):

Mello-Leitão, 1931: 44 (as Phrynus spinimanu [sic])

Phrynus tessellatus (Pocock):

Mello-Leitão, 1931: 44 (as Phrynus tesselatus [sic])
Quintero, 1981: 135–137, fig. 47, 49–53, 114, 149, 151, 170, map 2
Quintero, 1983a: 44
Ávila Calvo and Armas, 1997: 32
Armas and González, 2002 (2001): 64
Harvey, 2003c: 30
Armas, 2004b: 44
Armas, 2006a: 241, figs. 17, 32a–d
Armas, 2014c: 40
Seiter and Hörweg, 2014: 50
Seiter and Lanner, 2017: 202–209, figs. 1–6, table 1


Synonyms
Tarantula spinimana Pocock, 1894 -- synonymised by Quintero, 1981: 135
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Tarantula spinimana Pocock:
Pocock, 1894c: 534–536, figs. 4, 4a original description
Quintero, 1981: 135 (synonymised with Phrynus tessellatus (Pocock, 1894))
Phrynus spinimanus (Pocock):
Mello-Leitão, 1931: 44 (as Phrynus spinimanu [sic])
Distribution
Distribution table
Grenada
St. Lucia
St. Vincent and Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
Type locality: St. Vincent, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 St. Vincent (island) 13.25 -61.2
Type repository
  • Holotype British Museum of Natural History (BMNH) (= NHM, Natural History Museum), London, UK Male
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:124C342E-AA8C-4686-BCD4-B0A14664A700

References

Armas, L.F. de (2004b). Arácnidos de República Dominicana. Palpigradi, Schizomida, Solifugae y Thelyphonida (Chelicerata: Arachnida). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, especial monográfico 2: 1–64. -- Show included taxa

Armas, L.F. de (2006a). Sinopsis de los amblipígidos antillanos (Arachnida: Amblypygi). Boletín Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 38: 223–245. -- 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

Bernard, H.M. (1894d). Vestigial stigmata in the Arachnida. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 14(6): 149–153. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939408677781 -- 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

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

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

Pocock, R.I. (1894b). Contributions to our knowledge of the arthropod fauna of the West Indies. Part I. Scorpiones and Pedipalpi; with a supplementary note upon the freshwater Decapoda of St. Vincent. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 24: 374–409. -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R.I. (1894c). Contributions to our knowledge of the arthropod fauna of the West Indies. III. Supplement on the Pedipalpi of the West Indies. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 24: 527–542. -- Show included taxa

Quintero, D., Jr (1981). The amblypygid genus Phrynus in the Americas (Amblypygi, Phrynidae). Journal of Arachnology 9: 117–166. -- Show included taxa

Quintero, D., Jr (1983a). Revision of the amblypygid spiders of Cuba and their relationships with the Caribbean and continental American amblypygid fauna. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 65: 1–54. -- 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

Seiter, M. & Lanner, J. (2017). Description and first record of Phrynus tessellatus (Pocock, 1894) (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Phrynidae) from northwestern Trinidad, with the description of its mating behaviour. Arachnology 17: 201–209. doi: https://doi.org/10.13156/arac.2017.17.5.201 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1897). On the spiders of the Island of St. Vincent.- Part III. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1897: 860–890. -- Show included taxa

Armas, L.F. de (2014c). Los amblipigios de Cuba (Arachnida: Amblypygi). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 24: 29-51. -- Show included taxa

Armas, L.F. de & González, A.P. (2002 (2001)). Los amblipígidos de República Dominicana (Arachnida: Amblypygi). Revista Ibérica de Aracnologia 3: 47–66. -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2024-04-07 Taxonomic reference update Pocock, 1894
2024-04-07 New taxonomic reference entry
2024-04-07 Taxonomic reference update Bernard, 1894
2024-04-07 Taxonomic reference update Bernard, 1894
2024-04-07 New taxonomic reference entry Mello-Leitão, 1931
2024-04-07 New taxonomic reference entry Armas and González, 2002 (2001)
2024-04-07 New taxonomic reference entry Armas, 2014c
2024-04-07 New taxonomic reference entry Quintero, 1983
2024-04-07 Taxonomic reference update Simon, 1897
2024-04-07 New taxonomic reference entry Seiter and Lanner, 2017
2024-04-07 Species updated Old value
2024-04-07 Species updated Old value
2024-03-30 Species updated Old value
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update Pocock, 1894
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update Armas, 2006
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update Quintero, 1981
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update Pocock, 1894
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update
2024-03-30 Species updated Old value