Damon variegatus (Perty, 1834)

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Phrynus variegatus

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Genus type of Damon C.L. Koch, 1850

Taxonomic references

Phrynus variegatus Perty:

Perty, 1833: 200, plate xxxix, fig. 10 original description
Lamarck, 1838: 118
Koch, 1840: 10–11, fig. 599
Lucas, 1840: 327–328
Gervais, 1844: 5–6
Butler, 1873c: 118, plate 6, fig. 4 (misidentification?)
Butler, 1879: 315

Damon variegatus (Perty):

Koch, 1850: 81
Kraepelin, 1895: 18, fig. 9
Kraepelin, 1899a: 239–240 (in part; see also Damon annulatipes and D. diadema)
Kraepelin, 1901b: 264
Börner, 1904: 5, figs. 5, 88–89, 912
Werner, 1911: 190, plate xv, fig. 4
Kraepelin, 1913: 188
Jeannel and Racovitza, 1914: 377
Strand, 1915: 87
Mello-Leitão, 1931: 38–39, fig. 17
Werner, 1935a: 472, figs. 21b, 50, 108
Lawrence, 1937: 272
Fage, 1939a: 108, fig. 6
Lawrence, 1947b: 38
Lawrence, 1950: 278–285, figs. 1, 2c–d, 3a–b, 4a–c, 5a–d, 6a–b (in part, see Damon sylviae Prendini, Weygoldt and Wheeler, 2005)
Fage, 1951: 12–13 (in part, see Damon sylviae Prendini, Weygoldt and Wheeler, 2005)
Roewer, 1952b: 26
Fage, 1954: 180–181, fig. 2 (in part, see Damon sylviae Prendini, Weygoldt and Wheeler, 2005)
Lawrence, 1954b: 168–169
Lawrence, 1955: 260 (in part, see Damon sylviae Prendini, Weygoldt and Wheeler, 2005)
Lawrence, 1958b: n/a, fig. 1e
Alexander, 1962a: 380–382, fig. 2
Alexander, 1962b: 25–36, figs. 2a–c, 3d, 5
Lawrence, 1964b: 39
Lawrence, 1967a: 86
Cloudsley-Thompson, 1968: 156, 159
Kaestner, 1968: 123
Lawrence, 1968a: 4, figs. 1a–f
Besch, 1969: 730
Lawrence, 1969b: 82, 86
Schaller, 1971: 425
Delle Cave and Simonetta, 1975: 157–160
Cloudsley-Thompson, 1978: 188
Newlands, 1978: 691–693, fig. 1
Schaller, 1979: n/a, plate 10.II, fig. 5
Weygoldt, 1996a: n/a, fig. 8
Weygoldt, 1999a: 35–37, 62–64, 75, figs. 11, 13 (in part, see Damon sylviae Prendini, Weygoldt and Wheeler, 2005)
Weygoldt, 2000a: n/a, figs. 67, 155, 263–264, 293 (in part, see Damon sylviae Prendini, Weygoldt and Wheeler, 2005)
Harvey, 2003c: 13–14
Prendini, Weygoldt and Wheeler, 2005: 227–230, figs. 5–9, 11, 14, 29
Haddad, Dippenaar-Schoeman and Wesołowska, 2006: 21
Seiter and Hörweg, 2014: 50, 53
Fernández and Giribet, 2015: 8, figs. 2–3
Ballesteros, Santibáñez-López, Kovác, Gavish-Regev and Sharma, 2019: 3, 6, figs 1, 3
Dunlop, 2018: 451, 455, table 1

Not Damon variegatus (Perty):

Lampe, 1918: 206 (see Damon sylviae Prendini, Weygoldt and Wheeler, 2005)
Weygoldt, 1998b: 266–267, figs. 17–18, 23–26, 27–29 (see Damon annulatipes (Wood))


Synonyms
Nanodamon cinctipes Pocock, 1894 -- synonymised by Kraepelin, 1899a: 239
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Nanodamon cinctipes Pocock:
Pocock, 1894d: 293–294 original description
Kraepelin, 1899a: 239 (synonymised with Damon variegatus (Perty, 1834))
Distribution
Distribution table
Sudan?
Ethiopia?
Botswana
Congo - Kinshasa (Zaire)
Mozambique
Namibia
South Africa
Tanzania
Zimbabwe
Type locality: Kalémié (as Albertville), Shaba, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire).

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Kalémié -5.95 29.2
Type repository
  • Neotype undefined Neotype from Kalémié (designated by Weygoldt, 1999a: 36), originally, but mistakenly, from the Amazon River ("Amazonum flumen").
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:93AF3CAC-19F1-4EF6-9BA2-6A29A3360F18

References

Alexander, A.J. (1962a). Courtship and mating in amblypygids (Pedipalpi, Arachnida). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 138: 379–383. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1962.tb05705.x -- Show included taxa

Alexander, A.J. (1962b). Biology and behavior of Damon variegatus Perty of South Africa and Admetus barbadensis Pocock of Trinidad, W.I. (Arachnida, Pedipalpi). Zoologica 47: 25–37. doi: https://doi.org/10.5962/p.203321 -- Show included taxa

Besch, W. (1969). South American Arachnida. In: Fittkau, E.J., Illies, J., Klinge, H., Schwabe, G.H. and Sioli, H. (ed.) Biogeography and ecology in South America Junk, The Hague: 723–740. -- Show included taxa

Börner, C. (1904). Beitrage zur Morphologie der Arthropoden. I. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Pedipalpen. Zoologica, Stuttgart 42: 1–174. -- 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

Cloudsley-Thompson, J.L. (1968). Spiders, scorpions, centipedes and mites. Pergamon Press, Oxford. [revised edition] -- Show included taxa

Cloudsley-Thompson, J.L. (1978). Biological clocks in Arachnida. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 4: 184–191. -- 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. (1951). Pedipalpes (Amblypyges) récoltés en Angola par M. A. de Barros Machado. Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, Publiçacões Culturais 13: 9–17. -- 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

Fernández, R. & Giribet, G. (2015). Unnoticed in the tropics: phylogenomic resolution of the poorly known arachnid order Ricinulei (Arachnida). Royal Society Open Science 2(150065): 1–13. doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150065 -- Show included taxa

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

Haddad, C.R., Dippenaar-Schoeman, A.S. & Wesołowska, W. (2006). A checklist of the non-acarine arachnids (Chelicerata: Arachnida) of the Ndumo Game Reserve, Maputaland, South Africa. Koedoe 49(2): 1–22. -- 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

Jeannel, R. & Racovitza, E.G. (1914). Biospeologica. XXXIII. Énumération des grottes visitées 1911–1913 (cinquième série). Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 53: 325–558. -- Show included taxa

Kaestner, A. (1968). Arthropod relatives, Chelicerata, Myriapoda. In: Invertebrate zoology John Wiley & Sons, New York 2. -- Show included taxa

Koch, C.L. (1840). Die Arachniden. Getreu nach der Natur Abgebildet und Beschrieben. C.H. Zeh'schen, Nürnberg 8. -- Show included taxa

Koch, C.L. (1850). Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. J.L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg 5. -- 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

Kraepelin, K. (1913). Neue Beiträge zur Systematik der Gliederspinnen. III. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 30: 121–196. -- Show included taxa

Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de (1838). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. J.B. Baillière, Paris 5. [2nd edition] -- Show included taxa

Lampe, E. (1918). Katalog der Skorpione, Pedipalpen und Solifugen des Naturhistorischen Museums in der Residenzstadt Wiesbaden. Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 70: 185–208. -- Show included taxa

Lawrence, R.F. (1937). A collection of Arachnida from Zululand. Annals of the Natal Museum 8: 211–273. -- Show included taxa

Lawrence, R.F. (1947b). A collection of Arachnida made by Dr. I. Trägardh in Natal and Zululand (1904–1905). Göteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps- och Vitterhetssamhälles Handlingar 5(9): 1–41. -- Show included taxa

Lawrence, R.F. (1950). Notes on the whip-scorpions (Pedipalpi) of South Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 32: 275–285. -- Show included taxa

Lawrence, R.F. (1954b). Fluorescence in Arthropoda. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 17: 167–170. -- Show included taxa

Lawrence, R.F. (1955). Solifugae, scorpions and Pedipalpi, with checklists and keys to South African families, genera and species. In: South African animal life. Results of the Lund Expedition in 1950-1951 Almquist and Wiksell, Stockholm 1: 152–262. -- Show included taxa

Lawrence, R.F. (1958b). A collection of cavernicolous Arachnida from French Equatorial Africa. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 65: 857–866. -- Show included taxa

Lawrence, R.F. (1964b). The Solifugae, scorpions and Pedipalpi of the Kruger National Park. Koedoe 7: 30–39. -- Show included taxa

Lawrence, R.F. (1967a). Supplementary list of the Solifugae, scorpions and Pedipalpi of the Kruger National Park. Koedoe 10: 82–86. -- Show included taxa

Lawrence, R.F. (1968a). The structure of the cleaning brush on the pedipalps of some African Amblypygi (Arachnida). Journal of Zoology, London 154: 1–8. -- 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

Lucas, H. (1840). Histoire naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Myriapodes. P. Duménil, Paris. -- 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

Newlands, G. (1978). Arachnida (except Acari). In: Werger, M.J.A. (ed.) Biogeography and ecology of southern Africa Junk, The Hague 31: 685–702. -- Show included taxa

Perty, M. (1833). Arachnides Brasilienses. In: Spix, J.B. de and Martius, C.F.P. de (ed.) Delectus Animalium Articulatorum quae in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX jussu et auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I Friedrich Fleischer, Monachii 3: 191–209. -- 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

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

Roewer, C.F. (1952b). Solifuga, Opiliones, Pedipalpi und Scorpiones (Arachnoidea). In: Exploration de Parc National de l'Upemba. Mission G.F. de Witte Institut des Parcs Nationaux du Congo Belge, Bruxelles 5: 1–36. -- Show included taxa

Schaller, F. (1971). Indirect sperm transfer by soil arthropods. Annual Review of Entomology 16: 407–446. -- Show included taxa

Schaller, F. (1979). Significance of sperm transfer and formation of spermatophores in arthropod phylogeny. In: Gupta, A.P. (ed.) Arthropod phylogeny Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York: 587–608. -- 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

Strand, E. (1915). Bemerkungen über eine afrikanische Pedipalpenart. Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 68: 87. -- Show included taxa

Werner, F. (1911). Scorpions and annulated spiders of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. In: Balfour, A. (ed.) Fourth report of the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College Khartoum Department of Education, Sudan Government, Khartoum 4B: 179–194. -- 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. (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. (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

Ballesteros, A., Santibáñez-López, C.E., Kovác, L., Gavish-Regev, E. & Sharma, P.P. (2019). Ordered phylogenomic subsampling enables diagnosis of systematic errors in the placement of the enigmatic arachnid order Palpigradi. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286: e20192426. doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2426 -- Show included taxa

Dunlop, J.A. (2018). Smaller orders of Arachnida in Sudan: a literature review. Arachnology 17(9): 449-457. -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2024-05-04 Taxonomic reference update Perty, 1833
2024-04-16 Taxonomic reference update Lampe, 1918
2024-04-16 Taxonomic reference update Weygoldt, 1999
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Weygoldt, 1998
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Dunlop, 2018
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Fernández and Giribet, 2015
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 Weygoldt, 1996
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Schaller, 1979
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Newlands, 1978
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Lawrence, 1968
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Fage, 1954
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Alexander, 1962
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Alexander, 1962
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Lawrence, 1958
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Lawrence, 1950
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Fage, 1939
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Werner, 1935
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Mello-Leitão, 1931
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Werner, 1911
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Börner, 1904
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Kraepelin, 1895
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Butler, 1873
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Koch, 1840
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Perty, 1833
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Perty, 1833
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update
2024-03-18 Species updated Old value
2023-01-11 New taxonomic reference entry Dunlop, 2018
2022-10-18 New taxonomic reference entry Ballesteros, Santibáñez-López, Kovác, Gavish-Regev and Sharma, 2019