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

Melanoblossia globiceps Purcell, 1903

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Melanoblossia globiceps

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:095c7ad8-dbc5-43b3-a495-4266159fde16

Taxonomic references

Melanoblossia globiceps

Purcell, 1903a: 8–9, fig. 6 original description
Hewitt, 1919b: 62
Roewer, 1932: n/a, fig. 135b
Roewer, 1933: 344
Millot and Vachon, 1949: n/a, fig. 248a
Lawrence, 1955: 175
Lawrence, 1969c: n/a, fig. 3g
Harvey, 2003c: 289
Dippenaar-Schoeman, González Reyes and Harvey, 2006: 81
Bird and Wharton, 2015: 516

Distribution
Distribution table
South Africa
Type locality: O'Okiep (as Ookiep), Namaqualand, Northern Cape, South Africa.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 O'Okiep -29.6 17.866666
Type repository
  • Holotype male (South African Museum 1056)
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:D62A1208-D4B2-4EC9-9D51-0C0C5D2D22F2

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

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. (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

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

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. (1932). Solifugae, Palpigradi. In: Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs. 5: Arthropoda. IV: Arachnoidea Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft M.B.H., Leipzig 5(IV)(4)(1): 1–160. -- 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

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