Metawithius murrayi (Pocock, 1900)

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Chelifer murrayi

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:6ba80bf0-a25c-428d-8c7e-c172ae4bf335


Genus type of Metawithius Chamberlin, 1931

Taxonomic references

Chelifer murrayi

Pocock, 1900: 156–157, plate 16 figs 1, 1a original description
With, 1906: 159–163, plate 3 figs 8a–j
Ellingsen, 1911a: 37
Ellingsen, 1911b: 142

Chelifer (Trachychernes) murrayi Pocock:

Ellingsen, 1910a: 376

Withius murrayi (Pocock):

Beier, 1930e: 292–293

Metawithius murrayi (Pocock):

Chamberlin, 1931c: 293
Beier, 1932e: 200, fig. 205
Roewer, 1936: n/a, figs 63b, 65
Roewer, 1937: 308
Harvey, 1985d: 154
Judson, 1997a: 28
Harvey, 2004: 442
Harvey, 2015b: 355–358, figs 1–13
Johnson, Romero-Ortiz, Mathew, Sebastian, Joseph and Harvey, 2019: n/a, fig. 42

Metawithius (Metawithius) murrayi (Pocock):

Harvey, 1991a: 646

Distribution
Distribution table
Australia (Christmas Island)
India
Indonesia (Nusa Tenggara, Sumatra, Timor)
Myanmar
Type locality: North West Point, Christmas Island, Australia.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 North West Point -10.433333 105.55
Type repository
  • Syntypes: 1 male, 1 female (BMNH)
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:EEB5F35F-EB2A-4743-A226-847EF7512E65

References

Beier, M. (1930e). Die Pseudoskorpione der Sammlung Roewer. Zoologischer Anzeiger 91: 284–300. -- Show included taxa

Beier, M. (1932e). Pseudoscorpionidea II. Subord. C. Cheliferinea. Tierreich 58: i–xxi, 1–294. -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, J.C. (1931c). A synoptic revision of the generic classification of the chelonethid family Cheliferidae Simon (Arachnida). Canadian Entomologist 63: 289–294. -- Show included taxa

Ellingsen, E. (1910a). Die Pseudoskorpione des Berliner Museums. Mitteilung aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 4: 357–423. -- Show included taxa

Ellingsen, E. (1911a). Pseudoscorpions from Sumatra. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (3a) 5: 34–40. -- Show included taxa

Ellingsen, E. (1911b). Pseudoscorpions collected by Leonardo Fea in Birma. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (3a) 5: 141–144. -- Show included taxa

Harvey, M.S. (1985d). Pseudoscorpionida. In: Walton, D.W. (ed.) Zoological catalogue of Australia Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra 3: 126–155. -- Show included taxa

Harvey, M.S. (1991a). Catalogue of the Pseudoscorpionida. Manchester University Press, Manchester. -- Show included taxa

Harvey, M.S. (2004). Remarks on the New World pseudoscorpion genera Parawithius and Victorwithius, with a new genus bearing a remarkable sternal modification (Pseudoscorpiones, Withiidae). Journal of Arachnology 32: 436–456. -- Show included taxa

Harvey, M.S. (2015b). Revised diagnoses for the pseudoscorpion genera Metawithius and Microwithius, with the description of a new Australian genus, and notes on Withius (Pseudoscorpiones, Withiidae). Journal of Arachnology 43: 353–370. -- Show included taxa

Johnson, J., Romero-Ortiz, C., Mathew, A.V., Sebastian, P.A., Joseph, M.M. & Harvey, M.S. (2019). A review of the pseudoscorpion genus Metawithius (Pseudoscorpiones: Withiidae) from the Indian subcontinent. Journal of Arachnology 47: 84–94. -- Show included taxa

Judson, M.L.I. (1997a). Catalogue of the pseudoscorpion types (Arachnida: Chelonethi) in the Natural History Museum, London. Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology 11: 1–54. -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R.I. (1900). Chilopoda, Diplopoda, and Arachnida. In: Andrews, C.W. (ed.) A monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) British Museum (Natural History), London: 153–162. -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C.F. (1936). Chelonethi oder Pseudoskorpione. In: Bronns, H.G. (ed.) Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft M.B.H., Leipzig 5(IV)(6)(1): 1–160. -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C.F. (1937). Chelonethi oder Pseudoskorpione. In: Bronns, H.G. (ed.) Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft M.B.H., Leipzig 5(IV)(6)(1): 161–320. -- Show included taxa

With, C.J. (1906). The Danish expedition to Siam 1899–1900. III. Chelonethi. An account of the Indian false-scorpions together with studies on the anatomy and classification of the order. Oversigt over det Konigelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Forhandlinger (7) 3: 1–214. -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2022-07-03 New taxonomic reference entry Johnson, Romero-Ortiz, Mathew, Sebastian, Joseph and Harvey, 2019