Phrynus longipes (Pocock, 1894)

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Tarantula longipes

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Taxonomic references

Tarantula longipes Pocock:

Pocock, 1894c: 536–537, fig. 5 original description

Neophrynus palmatus (Herbst):

Kraepelin, 1895: 30 (in part)

Tarantula palmata (Herbst):

Kraepelin, 1899a: 243–244 (in part)

Phrynus longipes (Pocock):

Mello-Leitão, 1931: 42
Quintero, 1981: 137–138, figs. 36–41, 116, 129–130, 132, 172, map 1
Armas and Ramírez, 1989: [2–3]
Muchmore, 1993: 32
Weygoldt, 1994: 245
Ávila Calvo and Armas, 1997: 32
Armas, 1999a: 4
Armas, 2000b: 137, 138
Shultz, 1999: 81–115, figs. 1–15
Armas and Pérez, 2001: 59–60, figs. 2b, 2g, 5d, 11, 12a–d
Armas, 2002 (2001)a: 88
Bloch and Weiss, 2002: 260–262
Harvey, 2003c: 27–28
Armas, 2004b: 42
Armas, 2006a: 238–239, figs. 4g, 24, 28a–d
Owen and Cokendolpher, 2006: 422–423
Armas, 2010a: 60, figs. 3a–c
Seiter and Hörweg, 2014: 53
Curtis and Bloch, 2014: 126–128, fig. 1
Chapin, 2015: 214–218, figs. 1–2


Synonyms
Tarantula thorellii Pocock, 1894 -- synonymised by Quintero, 1981: 137
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Tarantula thorellii Pocock:
Pocock, 1894d: 282–283, plate 7, fig. 7 original description
Quintero, 1981: 137 (synonymised with Phrynus longipes (Pocock, 1894))
Phrynus thorellii (Pocock):
Mello-Leitão, 1931: 44
Distribution
Distribution table
British Virgin Islands
Dominican Republic
Haiti
Puerto Rico
U.S. Virgin Islands
Type locality: Haiti.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Haiti (IMPRECISE) 19 -72.5
Type repository
  • Holotype British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK Male
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:F8B33EB9-9763-4551-85EB-55E794CA8E3A

References

Armas, L.F. de (1999a). Notas sobre la fauna de invertebrados de tres cuevas de República Dominicana. Troglobio 3: 3–5. -- Show included taxa

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 (2010a). Nuevos arácnidos de Puerto Rico (Arachnida: Amblypygi, Araneae, Opiliones, Parasitiformes, Schizomida, Scorpiones). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 47: 55–64. -- Show included taxa

Armas, L.F. de (2002 (2001)a). Frogs and lizards as prey of some Greater Antillean arachnids. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 3: 87–88. -- Show included taxa

Armas, L.F. de & Pérez, A. (2001). Los amblipígidos de República Dominicana (Arachnida: Amblypygi). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 3: 47–66. -- 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

Bloch, C.P. & Weiss, L. (2002). Distribution and abundance of the whipspider Phrynus longipes (Arachnida: Amblypygi) in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico: response to natural and anthropogenic disturbance. Caribbean Journal of Science 38: 260–262. -- Show included taxa

Chapin, K.J. (2015). Cave-epigean behavioral variation of the whip spider Phrynus longipes (Arachnida: Amblypygi) evidenced by activity, vigilance, and aggression. Journal of Arachnology 43: 214–219. doi: https://doi.org/10.1636/J15-04 -- Show included taxa

Curtis, C.A. & Bloch, C.P. (2014). Seasonal patterns of microhabitat selection by a sub-tropical whip spider, Phrynus longipes, in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico. Journal of Arachnology 42: 126–129. -- 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

Muchmore, W.B. (1993). Book review. Harvey, M.S. 1991. Catalogue of the Pseudoscorpionida. Journal of Arachnology 21: 159–160. -- Show included taxa

Owen, J.L. & Cokendolpher, J.C. (2006). Tailless whipscorpion (Phrynus longipes) feeds on Antillean Crested Hummingbird (Orthorhyncus cristatus). The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 118: 422–423. -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R.I. (1894c). Contributions to our knowledge of the arthropod fauna of the West Indies. III. Supplement on the Pedipalpi of the West Indies. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 24: 527–542. -- 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

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

Shultz, J.W. (1999). Muscular anatomy of a whipspider, Phrynus longipes (Pocock) (Arachnida: Amblypygi), and its evolutionary significance. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 126: 81–116. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1999.tb00608.x -- 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
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update Chapin, 2015
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update Curtis and Bloch, 2014
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update Armas, 2010
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update Armas, 2006
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update Armas and Pérez, 2001
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update Shultz, 1999
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update Armas and Ramírez, 1989
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update Quintero, 1981
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update Pocock, 1894
2024-03-30 Taxonomic reference update
2024-03-30 Species updated Old value