Damon annulatipes (Wood, 1869)

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Phrynus annulatipes

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:8d5adffe-9953-4942-a7dd-ad844f1652c9


Genus type of Nanodamon Pocock, 1894

Taxonomic references

Phrynus annulatipes Wood:

Wood, 1869: 441–442, plate 24, fig. 2 original description
Butler, 1873c: 120, plate 7, fig. 4
Butler, 1879: 314
Cokendolpher and Peek, 1991: 94

Damon annulatipes (Wood):

Simon, 1887b: 455
Pocock, 1898a: 310
Pocock, 1898e: 199
Weygoldt, 1999a: 30–35, figs. 65–74, 198, 202 (designating a Neotype)
Weygoldt, 2000a: n/a, 293
Weygoldt, 2000b: 342, 346, figs. 11, 13
Harvey, 2003c: 11
Terblanche, Klok, Marais and Chown, 2004: 638–643
Prendini, Weygoldt and Wheeler, 2005: 206–208, 210, 217–219, 221–227, 231, figs. 3–4, 11, 15, 28, tables 1, 3, 7
Seiter and Hörweg, 2014: 50, 53

Nanodamon annulatipes (Wood):

Pocock, 1894d: 293

Not Damon variegatus (Perty):

Kraepelin, 1899a: 239–240 (in part)
Caporiacco, 1937a: 142 (misidentification, see Damon diadema (Simon, 1876))
Weygoldt, 1998b: 266–267, figs. 17–18, 23–26, 27–29 (misidentification)

Distribution
Distribution table
South Africa
Type locality: Estcourt, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Estcourt -29 29.883333
Type repository
  • Neotype British Museum of Natural History (BMNH) (= NHM, Natural History Museum), London, UK (BMNH 1891, 8, 2, 79-80) [Wood's original specimen lost. Weygoldt (1999a: 32) designated a neotype and a paraneotype.]
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:0AD08C1D-1F89-4A5C-8ACB-7284D74CC6F6

References

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

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

Cokendolpher, J.C. & Peek, M.L. (1991). Horatio C Wood (1841–1920) and his contributions to arachnology. Revue Arachnologique 9: 89–101. -- 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. (1899a). Scorpiones und Pedipalpi. Tierreich 8: i–xviii, 1–265. -- 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. (1898a). On the Arachnida taken in the Transvaal and in Nyasaland by Mr. W.L. Distant and Dr. Percy Rendall. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 1: 308–321. -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R.I. (1898e). The Arachnida from the Province of Natal, South Africa, contained in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 2: 197–226. -- 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

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. (1887b). Arachnides recueillis à Obock en 1886 par M. le Dr L. Faurot. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 12: 452–455. -- Show included taxa

Terblanche, J.S., Klok, C.J., Marais, E. & Chown, S.L. (2004). Metabolic rate in the whip-spider, Damon annulatipes (Arachnida: Amblypygi). Journal of Insect Physiology 50: 637–645. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinsphys.2004.04.010 -- Show included taxa

Weygoldt, P. (1998b). Mating and spermatophore morphology in whip spiders (Phrynichodamon scullyi [Purcell, 1901], Damon gracilis nov. spec., Damon variegatus [Perty, 1834] and Euphrynichus bacillifer [Gerstaecker, 1873]) (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Phrynichidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 236: 259–276. -- 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. (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

Wood, H.C. (1869). On the Phalangia and Pedipalpi collected by Professor Orton in western South America, with the description of new African species, accompanied with a plate. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series 13: 435–442. -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2024-05-13 Species updated Old value
2024-05-13 Species updated Old value
2024-05-13 Species updated Old value
2024-05-13 Taxonomic reference update Weygoldt, 1999
2024-05-13 Species updated Old value
2024-05-13 Taxonomic reference update Caporiacco, 1937
2024-04-16 Species updated Old value
2024-04-16 Species updated Old value
2024-04-16 Taxonomic reference update Prendini, Weygoldt and Wheeler, 2005
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Weygoldt, 1998
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, 1999
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Butler, 1873
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Wood, 1869
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update
2024-03-18 Species updated Old value
2024-02-05 Taxonomic reference update Butler, 1873
2024-02-05 Taxonomic reference update Wood, 1869
2024-02-05 Taxonomic reference update Weygoldt, 1998
2024-02-05 Taxonomic reference update Weygoldt, 1998
2024-02-05 Taxonomic reference update Weygoldt, 1998
2024-02-05 Taxonomic reference update Prendini, Weygoldt and Wheeler, 2005
2024-02-05 Taxonomic reference update Weygoldt, 2000
2024-02-05 Taxonomic reference update Weygoldt, 2000
2024-02-05 Taxonomic reference update Weygoldt, 1999
2024-02-05 Taxonomic reference update Butler, 1873
2024-02-05 Taxonomic reference update Wood, 1869