Genus: Megaschizomus Lawrence, 1969 | Family: Hubbardiidae Cook, 1899 | Order: Schizomida Petrunkevitch, 1945

Megaschizomus mossambicus (Lawrence, 1958)

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Schizomus mossambicus

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:73d9e5c4-8221-4629-b699-083e4d6655e1

Genus type of Megaschizomus Lawrence, 1969

Taxonomic references

Schizomus mossambicus

Lawrence, 1958a: 75–79, figs 3a–f, 4a–h original description
Rémy, 1961a: 406

Megaschizomus mossambicus (Lawrence):

Lawrence, 1969a: 257–258, figs 14a–h
Lawrence, 1969c: 125, 127, figs 2Aa–b, 2Bc
Rowland, 1973a: 199, fig. 5
Newlands, 1978: 693
Reddell and Cokendolpher, 1984a: n/a, figs 1–2
Reddell and Cokendolpher, 1995: 36–37, figs 11, 14, 31–35
Harvey, 2003c: 128
Monjaraz-Ruedas, Francke, Cruz-López and Santibáñez-López, 2016: n/a, figs 8D–F

Distribution
Distribution table
Mozambique
Type locality: Serra da Gorongosa (as Mt Gorongoza), Sofala, Mozambique.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Serra da Gorongosa -18.4 34.066666
Type repository
    N/A
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:194255D2-078B-4575-BFBF-A9FD040CB010

References

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

Lawrence, R.F. (1958a). Whipscorpions (Uropygi) from Angola, the Belgian Congo and Mossambique. Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, Publiçacões Culturais 40: 69–79. -- Show included taxa

Lawrence, R.F. (1969a). The Uropygi (Arachnida: Schizomida) of the Ethiopian region. Journal of Natural History 3: 217–260. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00222936900770201 -- Show included taxa

Lawrence, R.F. (1969c). The trichoid structures on the chelicerae of the short-tailed whip-scorpions (Schizomida; Arachnida). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 38: 123–132. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00359196909519080 -- Show included taxa

Monjaraz-Ruedas, R., Francke, O.F., Cruz-López, J.A. & Santibáñez-López, C.E. (2016). Annuli and setal patterns in the flagellum of female micro-whipscorpions (Arachnida: Schizomida): hypotheses of homology across an order. Zoologischer Anzeiger 263: 118–134. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2016.05.003 -- Show included taxa

Newlands, G. (1978). Arachnida (except Acari). In: Werger, M.J.A. (ed.) Biogeography and ecology of southern Africa Junk, The Hague 31: 685–702. -- Show included taxa

Reddell, J.R. & Cokendolpher, J.C. (1984a). Redescription of Trithyreus grassii (Arachnida: Schizomida: Schizomidae). Oriental Insects 18: 43–52. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00305316.1984.10432194 -- Show included taxa

Reddell, J.R. & Cokendolpher, J.C. (1995). Catalogue, bibliography, and generic revision of the order Schizomida (Arachnida). Texas Memorial Museum, Speleological Monographs 4: 1–170. -- Show included taxa

Rémy, P.A. (1961a). Sur l'écologie des schizomides (Arachn. Uropyges) de mes récoltes, avec description de trois Schizomus nouveaux, capturés par J. van der Drift au Surinam. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (2) 33: 406–414, 500–511. -- Show included taxa

Rowland, J.M. (1973a). Revision of the Schizomida (Arachnida). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 80: 195–204. -- Show included taxa

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