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

Blossia unguicornis Purcell, 1902

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Blossia unguicornis

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:cb33a97f-a68f-4b12-b7c2-3d8a8a7f6634

Genus type of Blossiola Roewer, 1933

Taxonomic references

Blossia unguicornis

Purcell, 1902: 213–214, fig. 3 (as Blossia unquicornis [sic], but spelled correctly in figure caption) original description
Hewitt, 1919a: 65
Hewitt, 1919b: 56–57, plate VII figs 39–40, plate VIII figs 44, 46
Roewer, 1932: n/a, fig. 151
Lawrence, 1942: 406
Dean and Griffin, 1993: 93 (as Blossia unquicornis [sic])
Harvey, 2003c: 218
Dippenaar-Schoeman, González Reyes and Harvey, 2006: 78

Blossiola unguicornis (Purcell):

Roewer, 1933: 369
Zilch, 1946: 128
Lawrence, 1955: 159, 182, figs 2a–b

Distribution
Distribution table
South Africa
Type locality: Dunbrody, on Sundays River, Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Dunbrody -33.466666 25.533333
Type repository
    N/A
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:9E39FAAB-DB1D-41E1-8B5D-4826BB2B80A9

References

Dean, W.R.J. & Griffin, E. (1993). Seasonal activity patterns and habitats in Solifugae (Arachnida) in the southern Karoo, South Africa. South African Journal of Zoology 28: 91–94. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02541858.1993.11448299 -- 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. (1919a). Descriptions of new South African Araneae and Solifugae. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 6: 63–111. -- 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. (1942). A collection of scorpions and solifuges in the Transvaal Museum, with notes on two Natal solifuges. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 20: 399–408. -- 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

Purcell, W.F. (1902). On some South African Arachnida belonging to the orders Scorpiones, Pedipalpi, and Solifugae. Annals of the South African Museum 2: 137–225. -- 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

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

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