Genus: Biton Karsch, 1880 | Family: Daesiidae Kraepelin, 1899 | Order: Solifugae Sundevall, 1833

Biton (Biton) betschuanicus (Kraepelin, 1908)

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Daesia betschuanica

Subgenus Biton

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:87acc05c-f32e-40a1-adeb-b89385439d34

Taxonomic references

Daesia betschuanica

Kraepelin, 1908b: 273, fig. 4 original description
Kraepelin, 1908c: n/a, fig. 53a (as Daesia betschuana [sic])
Hewitt, 1919b: 54
Weidner, 1959: 109
Moritz and Fischer, 1980: 140
Harms and Dupérré, 2018: 20, fig. 10a-c

Daesia sp. presumably betschuanica Kraepelin:

Hewitt, 1935: 476

Biton betschuanicus (Kraepelin):

Roewer, 1932: n/a, fig. 112
Roewer, 1933: 404, fig. 275i
Lawrence, 1955: 185

Biton (Biton) betschuanicus (Kraepelin):

Harvey, 2003c: 220
Dippenaar-Schoeman, González Reyes and Harvey, 2006: 73

Distribution
Distribution table

Realm: Africa

Botswana
South Africa
Type locality: Lobatse, Kweneng, Botswana.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Lobatse -25.216666 25.666666
Type repository
  • Lectotype Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany Male (ZMH-A0000171)
  • Paralectotype Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany Male (ZMB 15512)
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:EDB17296-A5D5-4E37-8F91-F9072374C569

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

Hewitt, J. (1935). Scientific results of the Vernay-Lang Kalahari Expedition, March to September, 1930. The trap-door spiders, scorpions and solifuges.. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 16: 459–479. -- 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

Kraepelin, K. (1908c). Die sekundären Geschlechtscharaktere der Skorpione, Pedipalpen und Solifugen. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 25: 182–225. -- 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

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. (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

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

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