Genus: Rhagodia Roewer, 1933 | Family: Rhagodidae Pocock, 1897 | Order: Solifugae Sundevall, 1833

Rhagodia obscurior (Penther, 1913)

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Rhagodes nigriceps obscurior

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:833f20af-dafb-4e52-bc51-d4f3a872cf64

Genus type of Rhagodia Roewer, 1933

Taxonomic references

Rhagodes nigriceps var. obscurior

Penther, 1913: 108 original description

Rhagodia obscurior (Penther):

Roewer, 1933: 281, fig. 188
Zilch, 1946: 121
Kästner, 1952a: n/a, fig. 10
Harvey, 2003c: 297
Runge and Wirkner, 2020: 1525-1526, 1528

Distribution
Distribution table
Iraq
Turkey
Type locality: Ash Sharqat (as Assur (Kal'at Schergat)), Nīnawā, Iraq. Bara, , Iraq. Chatunije, , Iraq. El'Abid, Dhī Qār, Iraq. Gajara, , Iraq. Between Samoidja and Charnina, , Iraq.
Type repository
  • Syntypes: numerous (museum?)
Zoobank LSID

4A8FB06F-A9DA-4232-ADE8-DDF5996F8FE0

References

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

Kästner, A. (1952a). Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des Prosoma der Solifugen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 148: 156–168. -- Show included taxa

Penther, A. (1913). Solifugae. In: Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Expedition nach Mesopotamien, 1910. Annalen des K. K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums 27: 107–108. ZooBank: 9FC655F2-A2E3-4EED-BD6F-F9E630C887D5 -- 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. ZooBank: 28295A2B-4B65-49EA-9F54-AADA370B6D68 -- Show included taxa

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

Runge, J. & Wirkner, C.S. (2020). Evolutionary and functional substitution of extrinsic musculature in Solifugae (Arachnida). Journal of Morphology 281: 1524-1533. doi: 10.1002/jmor.21260 -- Show included taxa

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Date Type Reference Old value
2023-01-20 New taxonomic reference entry Runge and Wirkner, 2020