Ricinoididae Ewing, 1929

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Original name: Ricinoididae
LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:026d6519-9cf7-4183-948c-827f58b80201

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Taxonomic references
Ricinoididae
Ewing, 1929: 586 original description
Kästner, 1932c: 115
Petrunkevitch, 1955a: 160
Kaestner, 1968: 207
Harvey, 2003c: 177
Botero-Trujillo and Prendini, 2026: 16

Synonyms
Cryptostemmidae Westwood, 1874 -- Reference missing
LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:e5b48f46-c1a6-4737-810d-29b05482363b
Cryptostemmidae
Westwood, 1874: 201 original description
Thorell, 1892: 9–10 (as Cryptostemmoidae)
Hansen and Sørensen, 1904: 144–145 (as Cryptostemmatoidae)
Pocock, 1911: 37
Zoobank LSID

182D5DF0-CD87-4734-8487-6DD905DD9F10

References

Ewing, H.E. (1929). A synopsis of the American arachnids of the primitive order Ricinulei. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 22: 583–600. ZooBank: 90AC2333-08F3-4F1A-BF25-F97CB1E1EDC2 -- Show included taxa

Hansen, H.J. & Sørensen, W. (1904). On two orders of Arachnida. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ZooBank: 0CC7E6DA-B25C-4387-A795-0005DBA0D05B -- 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

Kaestner, A. (1968). Arthropod relatives, Chelicerata, Myriapoda. In: Invertebrate zoology John Wiley & Sons, New York 2. -- Show included taxa

Kästner, A. (1932c). Ricinulei Thorell. In: Kükenthal, W. (ed.) Handbuch der Zoologie Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin und Leipzig 3 (2) (4): 99–116. -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1955a). Arachnida. In: Moore, R.C. (ed.) Treatise on invertebrate paleontology. P, Arthropoda University of Kansas Press, Lawrence 2: 42–162. ZooBank: F42C9AFA-4F47-4D06-BD19-40CBA0BFD5FC -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R.I. (1911). A monograph of the terrestrial Carboniferous Arachnida of Great Britain. Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society 64: 1–84. ZooBank: 717B7672-B0D9-4896-BDEC-009DF07BBF60 -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1892). On an apparently new arachnid belonging to the family Cryptostemmoidae, Westw.. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-akademiens Handlingar 17: 1–18. ZooBank: 897DAED2-FDA9-416C-A2DE-362DCA518A92 -- Show included taxa

Westwood, J.O. (1874). Thesaurus entomologicus oxoniensis. Clarendon Press, Oxford. ZooBank: 722647F0-440D-4B41-8DFA-5096F406F9DB -- Show included taxa

Botero-Trujillo, R. & Prendini, L. (2026). Phylogeny and revised generic classification of African Ricinulei (Ricinoididae), descriptions of five new genera, three new species, and comparative morphology of the male copulatory apparatus. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 480: 1–92. doi: 10.1206/0003-0090.480.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2026-10-24 Taxonomic reference update Botero-Trujillo and Prendini, 2026
2026-10-23 New taxonomic reference entry Botero-Trujillo and Prendini, 2026