Paraphrynus aztecus (Pocock, 1894)

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Tarantula azteca

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:bbaaddf0-28e7-4508-9eb9-63a2c60c40e2


Taxonomic references

Tarantula azteca Pocock:

Pocock, 1894d: 280–281, plate 7, fig. 2 original description

Neophrynus fuscimanus (C.L. Koch):

Kraepelin, 1895: 25 (in part)

Tarantula fuscimana (C.L. Koch):

Kraepelin, 1899a: 243 (in part)

Hemiphrynus aztecus (Pocock):

Pocock, 1902c: 54, plate 11, figs. 2, 2a–b
Franganillo Balboa, 1931: 49 (probable misidentification)
Mello-Leitão, 1931: 45
Franganillo Balboa, 1936: 152
Caporiacco, 1938: 255
Millot, 1949d: n/a, fig. 319b (as Hemiphrynus atzecas [sic])

Paraphrynus aztecus (Pocock):

Mullinex, 1975: 34–37, figs. 33a–c, 34a–h, 39 (as Paraphrynus azteca [sic])
Reddell, 1981: n/a, fig. 24 (as Paraphrynus azteca [sic])
Quintero, 1983b: 99–100, figs. 1–2 (as Paraphrynus azteca [sic])
Weygoldt, 1994: 244 (as Paraphrynus azteca [sic])
Vázquez-Rojas, 1995: 29 (as Paraphrynus azteca [sic])
Vázquez Rojas, 1996d: 72 (as Paraphrynus azteca [sic])
Ávila Calvo and Armas, 1997: 31 (as Paraphrynus azteca [sic])
Weygoldt, 2000a: n/a, fig. 3
Harvey, 2003c: 22–23
Armas, 2004b: 39 (as Paraphrynus azteca [sic])
Seiter and Hörweg, 2014: 53
Armas, Trujillo and Agreda, 2018: 57, figs. 3, 4a–b, table I (as Paraphrynus azteca [sic])

Distribution
Distribution table
Mexico
Type locality: Tuxtla Guitérrez (as Tuxtla), Chiapas, Mexico.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Tuxtla Guitérrez 16.752778 -93.116667
Type repository
  • Holotype British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:6C444AE5-A40A-471F-B4F8-9C7EFB1900F2

References

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

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

Caporiacco, L. di (1938). Aracnidi del Messico, di Guatemala e Honduras Britannico. Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali di Milano 77: 251–282. -- Show included taxa

Franganillo Balboa, P. (1931). Excursiones aracnológicas durante el mes de Agosto de 1930. Revista Belén, La Habana 24: 44–49, 116–120, 168–171, 219–224, 285–288. -- Show included taxa

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

Millot, J. (1949d). Ordre des Amblypyges. In: Grassé, P.-P. (ed.) Traité de zoologie Masson, Paris 6: 563–588. -- Show included taxa

Mullinex, C.L. (1975). Revision of Paraphrynus Moreno (Amblypygida: Phrynidae) for North America and the Antilles. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 116: 1–80. -- 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

Quintero, D., Jr (1983b). Bifid spines in Paraphrynus azteca (Pocock) (Amblypygi: Phrynidae). Journal of Arachnology 11: 99–100. -- Show included taxa

Reddell, J.R. (1981). A review of the cavernicole fauna of Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. Bulletin of the Texas Memorial Museum 27: 1–327. -- 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

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

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

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2024-04-20 Species updated Old value
2024-04-20 Species updated Old value
2024-04-20 Species updated Old value
2024-04-20 Species updated Old value
2024-04-06 Taxonomic reference update Armas, Trujillo and Agreda, 2018
2024-04-06 New taxonomic reference entry Armas, Trujillo and Agreda, 2018
2024-03-26 Species updated Old value
2024-03-26 Taxonomic reference update Weygoldt, 2000
2024-03-26 Taxonomic reference update Quintero, 1983
2024-03-26 Taxonomic reference update Reddell, 1981
2024-03-26 Taxonomic reference update Mullinex, 1975
2024-03-26 Taxonomic reference update Millot, 1949
2024-03-26 Taxonomic reference update Pocock, 1902
2024-03-26 Taxonomic reference update Pocock, 1894
2024-03-26 Taxonomic reference update
2024-03-26 Species updated Old value