Sarax buxtoni (Gravely, 1915)

SPECIES |   SYNONYM

Original combination: Phrynichosarax buxtoni

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:bd7a88e5-4ce6-433d-9ef8-51e9e0268572


Taxonomic references

Phrynichosarax buxtoni Gravley:

Gravely, 1915b: 439–440, plate xxxi, fig. 4 original description
Mello-Leitão, 1931: 52 (as Phrynicosarax [sic] buxtoni)
Speijer, 1937: 173
Kraus, 1970: 178
Weygoldt, 1994: 244

Sarax buxtoni (Gravely):

Weygoldt, 2002a: 135–137, figs. 9–12
Harvey, 2003c: 8
Moseley, Lim and Lim, 2012: 89
Seiter and Wolff, 2014: 234–237, figs. 1a, 2–3
Seiter and Hörweg, 2014: 53
Anh and Luong, 2022: 69, fig. 8, table 1
Seiter, Wolff and Hörweg, 2015: 548–551
Miranda, Giupponi, Prendini and Scharff, 2021: 198 (synonymised with Sarax rimosus (Simon, 1901))


Synonyms
Sarax batuensis Roewer, 1962 -- synonymised by Miranda, Giupponi, Prendini and Scharff, 2021: 198
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Sarax batuensis Roewer:
Roewer, 1962: 519–520, figs. 3a–b original description
Kraus, 1970: 178 (synonymised with Sarax buxtoni (Gravely, 1915))
Miranda, Giupponi, Prendini and Scharff, 2021: 172–173, 176, figs 103–104, table 8 (removed from synonymy with Sarax buxtoni (Gravely, 1915))
Not Sarax sarawakensis Weygoldt:
Weygoldt, 1994: 244 (from Batu caves, misidentification)
Distribution
Distribution table

Realm: South Asia

Malaysia
Singapore
Type locality: Kubang Tiga Cave, Perlis, Malaysia.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Kubang Tiga 6.583333 100.283333
Type repository
  • Syntype Indian Museum (formerly Imperial Museum of Calcutta), Kolkata, India 1 female, 1 juvenile
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:608B27C4-88EB-4221-970D-EBC1182CBDF3

References

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

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

Kraus, O. (1970). Genitalmorphologie und Systematik der Amblypygi (Arachnida). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (2) 41(supplément 1): 176–180. -- 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

Moseley, M., Lim, T.K. & Lim, T.T. (2012). Fauna reported from Batu caves, Selangor, Malaysia: annotated checklist and bibliography. Cave and Karst Science 39: 77–92. -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C.F. (1962). Einige Arachniden aus den Batu Caves in Malaya. Pacific Insects 4: 517–520. -- 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

Seiter, M. & Wolff, J. (2014). Description of Sarax buxtoni (Gravely 1915) (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae) and a new case of parthenogenesis in Amblypygi from Singapore. Journal of Arachnology 42: 233–239. doi: https://doi.org/10.1636/Ha14-13.1 -- Show included taxa

Speijer, E.A.M. (1937). A collection of pedipalps from the Raffles Museum. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum 13: 171–175. -- 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. (2002a). Sperm transfer and spermatophore morphology of the whip spiders Sarax buxtoni, S. brachydactylus (Charinidae), Charon cf. grayi, and Stygophrynus brevispina nov. spec. (Charontidae) (Chelicerata, Amblypygi). Zoologischer Anzeiger 241: 131–148. doi: https://doi.org/10.1078/S0044-5231(04)70069-8 -- Show included taxa

Miranda, Gustavo S., Giupponi, A.P. de L., Prendini, L. & Scharff, Nikolaj (2021). Systematic revision of the pantropical whip spider family Charinidae Quintero, 1986 (Arachnida, Amblypygi). European Journal of Taxonomy 772: 1–409. doi: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2021.772.1505 -- Show included taxa

Anh, N.T.T & Luong, P.T.H. (2022). A new species of the whip spider genus Weygoldtia (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae) from Con Dao National Park, Vietnam. Academia Journal of Biology 44(3): 67-76. doi: 10.15625/2615-9023/16953 -- Show included taxa

Seiter, M., Wolff, J. & Hörweg, C. (2015). A new species of the South East Asian genus Sarax Simon, 1892 (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae) and synonymization of Sarax mediterraneus Delle Cave, 1986. Zootaxa 4012(3): 542–552. doi: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4012.3.8 -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2024-05-16 Species updated Old value
2024-05-16 Species updated Old value
2024-04-22 New taxonomic reference entry Miranda, Giupponi, Prendini and Scharff, 2021
2024-04-22 Species updated Old value
2024-04-22 Taxonomic reference update
2024-04-09 New taxonomic reference entry Seiter, Wolff and Hörweg, 2015
2024-03-14 Species updated Old value
2024-03-14 Taxonomic reference update Gravely, 1915
2024-03-14 Taxonomic reference update Weygoldt, 2002
2024-03-14 Taxonomic reference update Gravely, 1915
2024-03-14 Taxonomic reference update Seiter and Wolff, 2014
2024-03-14 Taxonomic reference update Anh and Luong, 2022
2024-03-14 Species updated Old value
2024-03-11 Species updated Old value
2022-11-07 New taxonomic reference entry Anh and Luong, 2022