Genus: Melanoblossia Purcell, 1903 | Family: Melanoblossiidae Roewer, 1933 | Order: Solifugae Sundevall, 1833

Melanoblossia braunsi Purcell, 1903

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Melanoblossia braunsi

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:ad904cf0-bb0c-4ede-8e1e-a7ac75c02264

Genus type of Melanoblossia Purcell, 1903

Taxonomic references

Melanoblossia braunsi

Purcell, 1903a: 6–8, figs 4a–b, 5 original description
Hewitt, 1919b: 62
Roewer, 1933: 344, figs 249A-C, 250A-C
Lawrence, 1935a: 90
Roewer, 1941: 124
Zilch, 1946: 126
Millot and Vachon, 1949: n/a, fig. 248c
Lawrence, 1955: 175
Harvey, 2003c: 288–289
Dippenaar-Schoeman, González Reyes and Harvey, 2006: 80–81
Cushing and Casto, 2012: 1
Bird and Wharton, 2015: 516

Distribution
Distribution table
South Africa
Type locality: Willowmore, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Willowmore -33.283333 23.483333
Type repository
  • Holotype male (South African Museum 10092); Paratypes: 6 juv. (South African Museum); 1 ?, 2 juv. (SMF)
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:07DD7F4A-36BD-4F66-9DD9-133D7E1479C4

References

Bird, TL. & Wharton, R.A. (2015). Description of a new solifuge Melanoblossia ansie sp. n. (Solifugae, Melanoblossiidae) with notes on the setiform flagellar complex of Melanoblossiinae Roewer, 1933. African Invertebrates 56: 515–525. doi: https://doi.org/10.5733/afin.056.0218 -- Show included taxa

Cushing, P.E. & Casto, P. (2012). Preliminary survey of the setal and sensory structures on the pedipalps of camel spiders (Arachnida: Solifugae). Journal of Arachnology 40: 123–127. doi: https://doi.org/10.1636/B11-71.1 -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A., González Reyes, A.P. & Harvey, M.S. (2006). A check-list of the Solifugae (sun-spiders) of South Africa (Arachnida: Solifugae). African Plant Protection 12: 70–92. -- 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

Hewitt, J. (1919b). A short survey of the Solifugae of South Africa. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 7: 1–76. -- Show included taxa

Lawrence, R.F. (1935a). New South African Solifugae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 23: 71–90. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00359193509520537 -- Show included taxa

Lawrence, R.F. (1955). Solifugae, scorpions and Pedipalpi, with checklists and keys to South African families, genera and species. In: South African animal life. Results of the Lund Expedition in 1950-1951 Almquist and Wiksell, Stockholm 1: 152–262. -- Show included taxa

Millot, J. & Vachon, M. (1949). Ordre des Solifuges. In: Grassé, P.-P. (ed.) Traité de zoologie Masson, Paris 6: 482–519. -- Show included taxa

Purcell, W.F. (1903a). Descriptions of new genera and species of South African Solpugidae. Annals of the South African Museum 3: 1–12. -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C.F. (1933). Solifugae, Palpigradi. In: Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs. 5: Arthropoda. IV: Arachnoidea Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft M.B.H., Leipzig 5(IV)(4)(2–3): 161–480. -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C.F. (1941). Solifugen 1934–1940. Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Kolonial Ubersee-Museums, Bremen 3: 97–192. -- Show included taxa

Zilch, A. (1946). Katalog der Solifugen (Arach.) des Senckenberg-Museums. Senckenbergiana 27: 119–154. -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2023-01-13 New taxonomic reference entry Bird and Wharton, 2015