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

Rhagodoca termes (Karsch, 1885)

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Rhax termes

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:a4b708f0-f3ed-4f5a-a2d4-de7c829e4e10

Genus type of Rhagodoca Roewer, 1933

Taxonomic references

Rhax termes

Karsch, 1885: 136, fig. 6 (in part; see Rhagodes karschi Kraepelin) original description
Bernard, 1896: n/a, plate XXVII figs 6–7
Pavesi, 1897b: 160
Weidner, 1959: 111
Harms and Dupérré, 2018: 53, fig. 30d-f

Rhagodes termes (Karsch):

Kraepelin, 1901a: 35
Kraepelin, 1913: 189
Birula, 1926: 179

Rhagodoca termes (Karsch):

Roewer, 1933: 274
Moriggi, 1941: 276
Harvey, 2003c: 301

Not Rhagodes termes (Karsch):

Caporiacco, 1927: 61 (misidentification, see Rhagodoca pusilla Caporiacco)

Distribution
Distribution table

Realm: Africa

Kenya
Somalia
Tanzania
Type locality: Plains of Mt Longido (as Ebene am Longidoberge), Arusha, Tanzania.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Ekuku Engata -2.6937 36.7173
Type repository
  • Lectotype Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany Female (ZMH-A0000162)
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:65340B33-65C0-4429-9C82-F315310A46EE

References

Bernard, H.M. (1896). The comparative morphology of the Galeodidae. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology (2) 6: 305–417. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1896.tb00393a.x -- Show included taxa

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

Caporiacco, L. di (1927). Scorpioni e Solifugi raccolti in Somalia dai prof. Stefanini e Puccioni nel 1924. Monitore Zoologico Italiano 38: 58–62. -- 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

Karsch, F. (1885). Verzeichnis der von Dr. G.A. Fischer auf der im Auftrage der geographischen Gesellschaft in Hamburg unternommenen Reise in das Massai-land gesammelten Myriopoden und Arachniden.. Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten 2: 131–139. -- Show included taxa

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

Kraepelin, K. (1913). Neue Beiträge zur Systematik der Gliederspinnen. III. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 30: 121–196. -- Show included taxa

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

Pavesi, P. (1897b). Aracnidi di Somali e Galla. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 38: 151–188. -- 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