Phrynichus pusillus Pocock, 1894

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Phrynichus pusillus

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:8e5d1b99-ba99-4842-beee-b14189f5c773


Taxonomic references

Phrynichus pusillus Pocock:

Pocock, 1894d: 296 original description
Pocock, 1900b: 128
Gravely, 1910: 44
Weygoldt, 1998c: 41–42, figs. 93–97
Weygoldt, 2000a: n/a, fig. 292
Harvey, 2003c: 18
Seiter and Hörweg, 2014: 50

Tarantula reniformis (Linnaeus):

Kraepelin, 1895: 10 (in part)

Phrynichus reniformis (Linnaeus):

Kraepelin, 1899a: 237 (in part)

Phrynichus ceylonicus var. pusillus Pocock:

Gravely, 1915b: 452
Gravely, 1915c: 526

Phrynichus ceylonicus pusillus Pocock:

Mello-Leitão, 1931: 36 (as Phrynicus [sic] ceylonicus pusillus)
Cloudsley-Thompson, 1968: 157

Distribution
Distribution table
Sri Lanka
Type locality: Pundaluoya, Central Province, Sri Lanka.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Pundaluoya 7.016666 80.666666
Type repository
  • Syntype British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 1 male, 1 female (BMNH 1890.10.22.66-67)
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:C440C6CC-B13C-4C9E-93F4-A0BD7138BD40

References

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

Gravely, F.H. (1910). Pedipalpi of Ceylon. Spolia Zeylanica 7: 43–47. -- Show included taxa

Gravely, F.H. (1915b). A revision of the Oriental subfamilies of Tarantulidae (order Pedipalpi). Records of the Indian Museum 11: 433–455. -- Show included taxa

Gravely, F.H. (1915c). Notes on the habits of Indian insects, myriapods and arachnids. Records of the Indian Museum 11: 483–539. -- 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. (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. (1900b). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Arachnida. Taylor and Francis, London. -- 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

Weygoldt, P. (1998c). Revision of the species of Phrynichus Karsch, 1879 and Euphrynichus Weygoldt, 1995 (Chelicerata, Amblypygi). Zoologica, Stuttgart 147: 1–65. -- Show included taxa

Weygoldt, P. (2000a). Whip spiders (Chelicerata: Amblypygi). Their biology, morphology and systematics. Apollo Books, Stenstrup. -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2024-04-17 Species updated Old value
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Weygoldt, 2000
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update Weygoldt, 1998
2024-03-18 Taxonomic reference update
2024-03-18 Species updated Old value