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

† Phrynus poinari Dunlop and Bartel, 2025

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Phrynus mexicana

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:e63ff18b-8310-45c9-a5be-43c1139cf560

Taxonomic references

Phrynus mexicana Poinar Jr & Brown, 1994:

Poinar and Brown, 2004: 1882-1883, Figs 1-9, Photo 696 [NB: junior primary homonym of Paraphrynus mexicanus (Bilimek, 1867)] original description

Phrynus mexicanus Poinar Jr & Brown, 1994:

Dunlop, Harvey and Poinar, 2015: 201-203 (suggsted replacement name; not accepted by IUCN)

Phrynus poinari Dunlop & Bartel, 2025:

Dunlop and Bartel, 2025: 68-69 (replacement name for Phrynus mexicana; following IUCN suggestion)

Distribution
Distribution table

Realm: Caribbean

Dominican Republic Chiapas amber (Aquitanian)
Type locality: Chiapas amber

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Chiapas amber 19 -70.667
Type repository
  • Holotype Poinar Amber Collection, Oregon State University (OSU), Corvallis, OR, USA Accession no. A-10-264; maintained at Oregon State University, USA
References

Poinar, G.O., Jr & Brown, A.E. (2004). A new whip spider (Arachnida: Amblypygi), Phrynus mexicana, is described from Mexican amber. Beiträge zur Araneologie 3: 1881–1885. -- Show included taxa

Dunlop, J.A., Harvey, M.S. & Poinar, G.O., Jr (2015). Case 3687. Phrynus mexicanus Poinar & Brown, 2004 (Arachnida, Amblypygi, PHRYNIDAE): proposed conservation of the specific name as a junior primary homonym of Phrynus mexicanus Bilimek, 1867. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 72(3): 201–203. -- Show included taxa

Dunlop, J.A. & Bartel, C. (2025). A new species of fossil Phrynus Lamarck, 1801, from Dominican Republic amber (Amblypygi: Phrynidae). Zootaxa 5563(1): 64-72. doi: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5563.1.7 -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2026-08-25 Taxonomic reference update Poinar and Brown, 2004
2026-08-25 Taxonomic reference update Poinar and Brown, 2004
2026-08-25 Species updated Old value
2026-08-25 Species updated Old value
2026-08-25 Taxonomic reference update Dunlop and Bartel, 2025
2026-08-25 Species updated Old value
2026-08-25 New taxonomic reference entry Dunlop and Bartel, 2025
2026-08-25 Taxonomic reference update Poinar and Brown, 2004
2026-08-25 Taxonomic reference update Dunlop, Harvey and Poinar, 2015
2026-08-25 Taxonomic reference update Dunlop, Harvey and Poinar, 2015
2026-08-25 Taxonomic reference update
2026-08-25 Taxonomic reference update
2026-08-25 New taxonomic reference entry Dunlop, Harvey and Poinar, 2015
2026-08-25 New taxonomic reference entry Poinar and Brown, 2004
2026-08-25 New species inserted