Phrynus whitei Gervais, 1842

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Phrynus Whitei

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:b23491e5-255a-40e8-a6fd-649001257cf1


Taxonomic references

Phrynus whitei Gervais:

Gervais, 1842a: 76 original description
Gervais, 1844: 6
Butler, 1873c: 119, plate 6, fig. 7
Butler, 1879: 315
Kraepelin, 1901b: 264
Pocock, 1902c: 52–53, plate 11, figs. 1, 1a–c
Comstock, 1913: 20
Franganillo Balboa, 1926: 67, fig. 5 (misidentification; see Phrynus pinarensis Franganillo, 1930)
Mello-Leitão, 1931: 44
Werner, 1935a: 474–475
Franganillo Balboa, 1936: 149 (probable misidentification)
Quintero, 1975: 161, figs. 13–18
Heurtault, 1978b: 390–396, fig. 5
Quintero, 1981: 150–153, figs. 90–95, 109, 143, 145–146, 163, map 1
Palacios-Vargas, 1983: 56 (as Phrynus whiteii [sic])
Jass and Young, 1985: 406
Armas and Hernandez, 1989: 9–11, fig. 4
Maes, Palacios Vargas and Jimenez, 1989: 5
Weygoldt, 1994: 245
Vázquez-Rojas, 1995: 30
Vázquez Rojas, 1996d: 72
Ávila Calvo and Armas, 1997: 32
Armas and Maes, 2000: 42–43, figs. 3a–f, 4
Harvey, 2003c: 30–31
Armas, 2004b: 44
Seiter and Hörweg, 2014: 50
Seiter and Hörweg, 2014: 53
Armas, Viquez and Trujillo, 2013: 26–27, 30
Armas, Trujillo and Agreda, 2018: 62, figs. 10, 15a–c, table I
Mondal, Chanda, Patara and Barman, 2020: 1–3

Tarantula whitei (Gervais):

Pocock, 1894d: 277, plate 7, figs. 4, 4a
Kraepelin, 1899a: 243
Arldt, 1908: 441
Scheuring, 1913: 590 (as Tarantula withei [sic])
Pratt, 1935: 476
Reddell, 1971b: 220

Neophrynus whitei (Gervais):

Kraepelin, 1895: 28–30, fig. 20

Admetus whitei (Gervais):

Banks, 1900: 423 (probable misidentification)
Banks, 1906: 188 (probable misidentification)

Distribution
Distribution table

Realm: Central America

Costa Rica
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Mexico
Nicaragua
Type locality: Burdwan, West Bengal, India (erroneously labelled as type locality).
Type repository
  • Holotype British Museum of Natural History (BMNH) (= NHM, Natural History Museum), London, UK Male
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:1680BB4F-2E07-4EFA-AE73-E9B3A9F92C22

References

Arldt, T. (1908). Die Ausbreitung einiger Arachnidenordnungen (Mygalomorphen, Skorpione, Pedipalpen, Solipugen, Palpigraden). Archiv für Naturgeschichte 74: 389–458. -- Show included taxa

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 & Hernandez, L.R. (1989). Arácnidos de Nicaragua. I. Notas sobre Centruroides margaritatus (Scorpiones: Buthidae) y Phrynus whitei (Amblypygi: Phrynidae). Poeyana 386: 1–12. -- Show included taxa

Armas, L.F. de & Maes, J.-M. (2000). Los amblipígidos de Nicaragua (Arachnida: Amblypygi). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 1: 39–44. -- 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

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

Banks, N. (1906). Arachnida from the Bahamas. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 22: 185–189. -- Show included taxa

Butler, A.G. (1873c). A monographic revision of the genus Phrynus, with descriptions of four remarkable new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 12: 117–125. -- Show included taxa

Butler, A.G. (1879). Respecting a new distinction between the species of the genus Phrynus of authors. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 4: 313–316. -- Show included taxa

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

Franganillo Balboa, P. (1926). Arácnidos nuevos o poco conocidos de la Isla de Cuba. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica de España 9: 42–68. -- Show included taxa

Franganillo Balboa, P. (1936). Los Arácnidos de Cuba hasta 1936. Cultural S.A., La Habana. -- Show included taxa

Gervais, P. (1842a). Entomologie. L'Institut, Journal Universal des Sciences et des Sociétés Savantes en France et a l'Étranger, 1ère Section 10: 76. -- Show included taxa

Gervais, P. (1844). Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Aptères. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris 3. -- 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

Heurtault, J. (1978b). Système sympathetique, structures glandulaires neurohémales prosomatiques chez Phrynus whitei et Damon sp. (Arachnides, Amblypyges). In: Merrett, P. (ed.) Arachnology: Seventh International Congress. Symposia of the Zoological Society of London Academic Press, London 42: 389–397. -- Show included taxa

Jass, J.P. & Young, A.M. (1985). Phrynus parvulus Pocock and P. whitei Gervais (Amblypygi, Phrynidae) in Costa Rica. Brenesia 24: 405–407. -- 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

Kraepelin, K. (1901b). Catalogue des Pédipalpes des collections du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 7: 263–264. -- Show included taxa

Maes, J.-M., Palacios Vargas, J.G. & Jimenez, M.L. (1989). Catalogo de los artropodos terrestres no insectes. Revista Nicaraguense de Entomologia 7: 1–55. -- 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

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

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. (1902c). Arachnida: Scorpiones, Pedipalpi, and Solifugae. In: Godman, F.D. and Salvin, O. (ed.) Biologia Centrali-Americana Taylor and Francis, London 3: 1–71. -- Show included taxa

Pratt, H.S. (1935). A manual of the common invertebrate animals (exclusive of insects). Blakiston Company, Philadelphia, Toronto. -- Show included taxa

Quintero, D., Jr (1975). Scanning electron microscope observations on the tarsi of the legs of the amblypygids (Arachnida, Amblypygi). In: Proceedings of the 6th International Arachnological Congress Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam, Amsterdam: 161–163. -- 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

Reddell, J.R. (1971b). A checklist of the cave fauna of Mexico. III. New records from southern Mexico. Bulletin of the Association for Mexican Cave Studies 4: 217–230. -- Show included taxa

Scheuring, L. (1913). Die Augen der Arachnoideen. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Anatomie und Ontogenie 33: 553–636. -- 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

Werner, F. (1935a). Klasse: Arachnoidea, Spinnentiere. Pedipalpen. In: Bronns, H.G. (ed.) Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig 5(IV)(8)(3): 317–490. -- 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

Armas, L.F. de, Viquez, C. & Trujillo, R.E. (2013). Nueva especie de Phrynus Lamarck, 1801 (Amblypygi: Phrynidae) de Guatemala y Honduras. Revista Ibérica de Aracnologia 23: 25–31. -- Show included taxa

Armas, L.F. de, Trujillo, R.E. & Agreda, E.O. (2018). Sinopsis de los Amblipigios de Guatemala (Arachnida: Amblypygi). Revista Ibérica de Aracnologia 32: 55–72. -- Show included taxa

Mondal, A., Chanda, D., Patara, S. & Barman, M. (2020). Phrynus whitei (Gervais, 1842) from the type locality Burdwan is actually Charinus bengalensis (Gravley,  1911). Zoo's Print Journal 35(7): 1-3. -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2024-05-27 Species updated Old value
2024-05-27 Taxonomic reference update Mondal, Chanda, Patara and Barman, 2020
2024-05-27 Species updated Old value
2024-05-27 Species updated Old value
2024-04-22 Species updated Old value
2024-04-22 New taxonomic reference entry Mondal, Chanda, Patara and Barman, 2020
2024-04-22 Species updated Old value
2024-04-22 Taxonomic reference update Franganillo Balboa, 1926
2024-04-06 New taxonomic reference entry Armas, Trujillo and Agreda, 2018
2024-04-06 New taxonomic reference entry Armas, Viquez and Trujillo, 2013
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update Kraepelin, 1895
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update Pocock, 1894
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update Armas and Maes, 2000
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update Armas and Hernandez, 1989
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update Palacios-Vargas, 1983
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update Quintero, 1981
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update Heurtault, 1978
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update Quintero, 1975
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update Franganillo Balboa, 1936
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update Franganillo Balboa, 1936
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update Franganillo Balboa, 1926
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update Pocock, 1902
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update Butler, 1873
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update
2024-03-30 Species updated Old value