Genus: Phrynus Lamarck, 1801 | Family: Phrynidae Blanchard, 1852 | Order: Amblypygi Thorell, 1883

Phrynus levii Quintero, 1981

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Phrynus levii

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:ed87f08b-7f25-476a-97ca-91fd6ec3c044

Taxonomic references

Phrynus levii Quintero:

Quintero, 1981: 143–144, figs. 66–71, 121, 138–140, 161, map 1 original description
Peck, 1993: 42
Weygoldt, 1994: 245
Ávila Calvo and Armas, 1997: 32
Armas, 2000b: 138
Harvey, 2003c: 27
Armas, 2004b: 42
Armas, 2006a: 237–238, fig. 24

Not Phrynus levii Quintero:

Armas and Ramírez, 1989: 2–3 (misidentification, see Phrynus hispaniolae Armas and González, 2002)

Phrynus marginemaculatus C.L. Koch:

Peck, 1993: 42 (misidentification, in part; see Phrynus levii)

Distribution
Distribution table
Jamaica
Type locality: Providence Cave, Montego Bay, Parish of St James, Jamaica.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Providence Cave 18.506666 -77.889166
Type repository
  • Holotype British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK Male
  • Paratype British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 1 female, same locality as holotype
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:CBCDBAE1-E6EA-455D-8788-6B8E29363CAF

References

Armas, L.F. de (2000b). La artropodofauna cavernicola de las Antillas Mayores. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 27: 134–138. -- Show included taxa

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

Armas, L.F. de (2006a). Sinopsis de los amblipígidos antillanos (Arachnida: Amblypygi). Boletín Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 38: 223–245. -- Show included taxa

Armas, L.F. de & Ramírez, O.B. (1989). Algunas observaciones sobre la historia natural y la distribucion de Phrynus longipes (Amblypygi: Phrynidae) en Republica Dominicana. Garciana 21: [2–3]. -- 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

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

Peck, S.B. (1993). A synopsis of the invertebrate cave fauna of Jamaica. National Speleological Society Bulletin 54: 37–60. -- Show included taxa

Quintero, D., Jr (1981). The amblypygid genus Phrynus in the Americas (Amblypygi, Phrynidae). Journal of Arachnology 9: 117–166. -- 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

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2024-04-21 Taxonomic reference update Armas and Ramírez, 1989
2024-04-21 Species updated Old value
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update Armas, 2006
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update Quintero, 1981
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update
2024-03-30 Species updated Old value
2024-03-30 Species updated Old value