Genus: Blossia Simon, 1880 | Family: Daesiidae Kraepelin, 1899 | Order: Solifugae Sundevall, 1833

Blossia clunigera Kraepelin, 1908

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Blossia clunigera

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:9fe7cf48-a7db-4bb6-a946-a6b6367d9304

Taxonomic references

Blossia clunigera

Kraepelin, 1908b: 275–276, fig. 7 original description
Hewitt, 1919b: 59
Weidner, 1959: 108
Moritz and Fischer, 1980: 141
Wharton, 1981: 25, fig. 25
Harvey, 2003c: 213–214
Dippenaar-Schoeman, González Reyes and Harvey, 2006: 76
Harms and Dupérré, 2018: 17-18, fig. 8a-f

Blossiola clunigera (Kraepelin):

Roewer, 1933: 369, figs 261b<1–2>
Millot and Vachon, 1949: n/a, fig. 248b
Lawrence, 1955: 179

Distribution
Distribution table

Realm: Africa

Namibia
South Africa
Type locality: Steinkopf, Namaqualand, Northern Cape, South Africa.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Steinkopf -29.266666 17.733333
Type repository
  • Lectotype Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany Male (ZMH-A0000176)
  • Paralectotype Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany 3 males, 1 female (ZMH-A0000175; A0000176)
  • Paralectotype Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany Body parts from ZMH specimens (No. 6852; 6853)
  • Paralectotype Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany 3 males, 7 females (No. 15537-15541)
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:FFB8C80A-12B3-40AD-BD81-DA27F5DE4B4F

References

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

Kraepelin, K. (1908b). Skorpione und Solifugen. In: Schultze, L. (ed.) Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika G. Fischer, Jena 13: 247–282. -- 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

Moritz, M. & Fischer, S.-C. (1980). Die Typen der Arachniden-Sammlung des Zoologischen Museums Berlin. II. Uropygi, Amblypygi, Schizomida, Ricinulei, Solifuga. Mitteilung aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 56: 137–154. -- 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

Weidner, H. (1959). Die Entomologischen Sammlungen des Zoologischen Staatsinstituts und Zoologischen Museums Hamburg. I. Teil. Pararthropoda und Chelicerata I. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institute 57: 89–142. -- Show included taxa

Wharton, R.A. (1981). Namibian Solifugae (Arachnida). Cimbebasia Memoir 5: 1–87. -- Show included taxa

Harms, D. & Dupérré, N. (2018). An annotated type catalogue of the camel spiders (Arachnida: Solifugae) held in the Zoological Museum Hamburg. Zootaxa 4375(1): 001–058. doi: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4375.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2022-09-28 New taxonomic reference entry Harms and Dupérré, 2018
2022-09-28 Species updated Old value
2022-09-28 Species updated Old value