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

Phrynus calypso Joya, 2017

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Phrynus calypso

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:2130d362-9a9d-4a3a-a70e-a06ea39155e2

Taxonomic references

Phrynus calypso Joya:

Joya, 2017: 359–362, 364–365, figs. 1a, 2e–f, 3–4, 7c–d, 7f, 8a, 8c, table 1 original description

Distribution
Distribution table
Trinidad and Tobago
Venezuela (Coastal area)
Type locality: Laja Trace, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Laja Trace 10.741194 -61.271472
Type repository
  • Holotype California Academy of Sciences (CAS), San Francisco, USA Female (CASENT 9060553)
  • Paratype California Academy of Sciences (CAS), San Francisco, USA 1 female, 1 male, same locality as holotype (CASENT 9060553)
  • Paratype California Academy of Sciences (CAS), San Francisco, USA 2 females, from Petite Tacarib [Lat 10.741194, Lon -61.225750] (CASENT 9060537)
  • Paratype Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZSP), Brazil 2 males, 1 juvenile, near Maracas Bay Port of Spain [Lat 10.750593, Lon -61.478858] (MZUSP 70892)
  • Paratype Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil 9 males, 7 females, from Venezuela, cave over Cueva del Guacharo [Lat 10.200000, Lon -63.639722] (MNRJ 09310, 09312, 09315)
  • Paratype Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil 4 males, 2 females, from Venezuela, Quebrada Cambural [Lat 10.042500, Lon -63.558861] (MNRJ 09317)
  • Paratype Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil 1 female, 1 male, 5 juveniles, from Venezuela, between Cueva del Guacharo and Caripe [Lat 10.169900, Lon -63.505800] (MNRJ 0916)
  • Paratype Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil 3 females, 2 juveniles, from Venezuela, Santa Maria [Lat 10.631944, Lon -63.077777] (MNRJ 09313–09314)
References

Joya, D.C. (2017). A new species of Phrynus Lamarck, 1801 (Arachnida: Amblypygi), from Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela, with a redescription of Phrynus pulchripes (Pocock, 1894). Zootaxa 4254(3): 357–374. doi: https://doi.org/10.11646/ZOOTAXA.4254.3.4 -- Show included taxa

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