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

Biton (Biton) simoni (Kraepelin, 1899)

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Daesia simoni

Subgenus Biton

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:66e81cf3-fd70-4a75-860b-d3f4f2184480

Taxonomic references

Daesia simoni

Kraepelin, 1899b: 230–231, figs 12a–b original description
Kraepelin, 1899c: 377
Kraepelin, 1901a: 99–100, fig. 69
Kraepelin, 1908c: 211, 215, fig. 43a
Birula, 1926: 180, 217–218
Moriggi, 1941: 282
Weidner, 1959: 109
Harms and Dupérré, 2018: 22

Biton simoni (Kraepelin):

Roewer, 1933: 403, fig. 278b
Delle Cave and Simonetta, 1971: 48–51, fig. 4

Biton (Biton) simoni (Kraepelin):

Harvey, 2003c: 224

Distribution
Distribution table

Realm: Africa

Djibouti
Somalia
Type locality: Obock (as Obok), Obock, Djibouti.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Obock 11.966666 43.283333
Type repository
  • Lectotype Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France Male (12725)
  • Paralectotype Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 1 male, 8 females, 4 juveniles
  • Paralectotype Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany 2 males, 2 females (ZMH-A0000172)
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:D357DD4A-47DC-4FC6-8261-08DFF83902CB

References

Birula, A. (1926). On some species of the Solifugae from British East Africa and the various countries of North-East Africa. Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Academie des Sciences de l'URSS 27: 175–218. -- Show included taxa

Delle Cave, L. & Simonetta, A.M. (1971). A tentative revision of the Daesiidae (Arachnida, Solifugae) from Ethiopia and Somalia. Monitore Zoologico Italiano, n.s., Supplemento 4: 37–77. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03749444.1972.10736773 -- 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

Kraepelin, K. (1899b). Zur Systematik der Solifugen. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 16: 197–259. -- Show included taxa

Kraepelin, K. (1899c). Catalogue des Solifuges (?) des collections du Muséum d'histoire Naturelle de Paris. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 5: 376–378. -- Show included taxa

Kraepelin, K. (1901a). Palpigradi und Solifugae. Tierreich 12: i–xi, 1–159. -- 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

Moriggi, M. (1941). Le Solpughe dell'Africa Orientale italiana. Rivista di Biologia Coloniale, Roma 4: 273–291. -- 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