Genus: Sarax Simon, 1892 | Family: Charinidae Quintero, 1986 | Order: Amblypygi Thorell, 1883

Sarax batuensis Roewer, 1962

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Sarax batuensis

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:237ade96-0586-4613-918e-32698e9f46e1

Taxonomic references

Sarax batuensis Roewer:

Roewer, 1962: 519–520, figs. 3a–b original description
Kraus, 1970: 178 (synonymised with Sarax buxtoni (Gravely, 1915))
Miranda, Giupponi, Prendini and Scharff, 2021: 172–173, 176, figs 103–104, table 8 (removed from synonymy with Sarax buxtoni (Gravely, 1915))

Not Sarax sarawakensis Weygoldt:

Weygoldt, 1994: 244 (from Batu caves, misidentification)

Distribution
Distribution table

Realm: Australasia

Malaysia
Type locality: Batu Caves, near Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Batu Caves 3.237831 101.684028
Type repository
  • Holotype Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany Male (SMF RII/13906/51)
  • Paratype Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany 3 females, 5 juveniles, (SMF RII/13906/51); same locality as holotype
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:40C02679-FA4C-409E-B670-064C214C8E5A

References

Kraus, O. (1970). Genitalmorphologie und Systematik der Amblypygi (Arachnida). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (2) 41(supplément 1): 176–180. -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C.F. (1962). Einige Arachniden aus den Batu Caves in Malaya. Pacific Insects 4: 517–520. -- 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

Miranda, Gustavo S., Giupponi, A.P. de L., Prendini, L. & Scharff, Nikolaj (2021). Systematic revision of the pantropical whip spider family Charinidae Quintero, 1986 (Arachnida, Amblypygi). European Journal of Taxonomy 772: 1–409. doi: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2021.772.1505 -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2024-05-14 Species updated Old value
2024-05-14 Species updated Old value
2024-04-22 Taxonomic reference update Kraus, 1970
2024-04-22 Taxonomic reference update Miranda, Giupponi, Prendini and Scharff, 2021
2024-04-14 Taxonomic reference update Kraus, 1970
2024-04-12 Taxonomic reference update Miranda, Giupponi, Prendini and Scharff, 2021
2024-04-12 Taxonomic reference update Roewer, 1962
2024-04-12 Taxonomic reference update Kraus, 1970
2024-04-12 New taxonomic reference entry Kraus, 1970
2024-04-12 New taxonomic reference entry Weygoldt, 1994
2024-03-14 Species updated Old value
2024-03-14 Taxonomic reference update Miranda, Giupponi, Prendini and Scharff, 2021
2024-03-08 Taxonomic reference update Miranda, Giupponi, Prendini and Scharff, 2021
2024-03-08 Taxonomic reference update Roewer, 1962
2024-03-08 Taxonomic reference update
2024-03-08 Species updated Old value
2022-04-06 Taxonomic reference update Miranda, Giupponi, Prendini and Scharff, 2021
2022-04-06 New taxonomic reference entry Miranda, Giupponi, Prendini and Scharff, 2021
2022-04-06 Species updated Old value