Genus: Thelyphonus Latreille, 1802 | Family: Thelyphonidae Blanchard, 1852 | Order: Uropygi Thorell, 1883

Thelyphonus indicus Stoliczka, 1873

SPECIES |   SYNONYM

Original combination: Thelyphonus indicus

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:4456ff78-753f-42e9-b27b-f4a3b1bcdf2d

Junior synonym of: Thelyphonus sepiaris Butler, 1873

Taxonomic references

Thelyphonus indicus

Stoliczka, 1873: 138–142, fig. 5 original description
Oates, 1889: 9–11, figs 1–6
Hansen, 1894: 167, 168, 174, 175, plate III fig. 1–5
Werner, 1935a: n/a, fig. 69a
Sundara Rajulu and Santhanakrishnan, 1972: 222–231, fig. 4
Rajashekhar and Geethabali, 1982: 330–331, figs 1–3
Rajashekhar and Geethabali, 1984: 207–211, fig. 1
Moro and Geethabali, 1985a: 207–217, figs 1–5
Rajashekhar and Geethabali, 1987b: 859–862, figs 1–5
Tikader, 1987: n/a, fig. 30
Geethabali and Moro, 1988a: 12–16, 19–21, figs 1a–b, 2, 3a–d, 4–5
Geethabali and Moro, 1988b: 189–195, figs 1–4
Geethabali and Rajashekar, 1988: 87–91, figs 1–2
Moro and Geethabali, 1988: 197–202, figs 1–2
Rajashekhar and Geethabali, 1989: 99–112, figs 1–13
Meyer-Rochow, Moro and Harjula, 1996: 155 (synonymised by Butler, 1873b: 116)
Kalaimani, 2014: 25-26, figs 1-4

Thelyphonus (?) indicus Stoliczka:

Tarnani, 1890a: 537

Thelyphonus sepiaris indicus Stoliczka:

Pocock, 1900b: 105, figs 1a–e (figures labelled T. indicus)

Distribution
Distribution table
Type locality: south India.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 southern India (IMPRECISE) 11 78
Type repository
    N/A
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:AD4CA23E-C63A-45C5-90F8-1DC45BDB1001

References

Butler, A.G. (1873b). Answer to Dr. Stoliczka's "Notes on the Indian species of Thelyphonus". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 12: 114–116. -- Show included taxa

Geethabali & Moro, S.D. (1988a). The disposition and external morphology of trichobothria in two arachnids. Acta Arachnologica 36: 11–23. -- Show included taxa

Geethabali & Moro, S.D. (1988b). The general behavioural patterns of the Indian whip scorpion Thelyphonus indicus. Revue Arachnologique 7: 189–196. -- Show included taxa

Geethabali & Rajashekar, K.P. (1988). Ionic composition of the haemolymph of the whip scorpion, Thelyphonus indicus Stoliczka and its saline formula. Acta Arachnologica 36: 87–92. -- Show included taxa

Hansen, H.J. (1894). Organs and characters in different orders of arachnids [second part]. Entomologiske Meddelelser 4: 145–249. -- Show included taxa

Meyer-Rochow, V.B., Moro, S.D. & Harjula, R. (1996). Do whip scorpions have photoreceptors or aphrodisiacs in their legs? Acta Universitatis Ouluensis A 286: 154–160. -- Show included taxa

Moro, S.D. & Geethabali (1985a). Distribution of cuticular sensory hairs on the legs and whip of Thelyphonus indicus Stoliczka (Arachnida Uropygi). Monitore Zoologico Italiano, n.s. 19: 207–218. -- Show included taxa

Moro, S.D. & Geethabali (1988). Prey catching behaviour of the Indian whip scorpion Thelyphonus indicus. Revue Arachnologique 7: 197–205. -- Show included taxa

Oates, E.W. (1889). On the species of Thelyphonus inhabiting continental India, Burma, and the Malay Peninsula. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 58: 4–19. -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R.I. (1900b). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Arachnida. Taylor and Francis, London. -- Show included taxa

Rajashekhar, K.P. & Geethabali (1982). Sexual dimorphism in a whipscorpion, Thelyphonus indicus Stoliczka (Arachnida, Uropygi). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 5: 330–331. -- Show included taxa

Rajashekhar, K.P. & Geethabali (1984). Physiological amino acids in the central nervous system of a whip-scorpion, Thelyphonus indicus Stoliczka. Monitore Zoologico Italiano, n.s. 18: 207–212. -- Show included taxa

Rajashekhar, K.P. & Geethabali (1987b). Action of amino acids on electrical activity of central neurons in the whip scorpion Thelyphonus indicus Stoliczka. Indian Journal of Experimental Biology 25: 859–862. -- Show included taxa

Rajashekhar, K.P. & Geethabali (1989). Organisation of the nervous system of the whip scorpion Thelyphonus indicus Stoliczka. Revue Arachnologique 8: 99–113. -- Show included taxa

Stoliczka, F. (1873). Notes on the Indian species of Thelyphonus. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 42: 126–143. -- Show included taxa

Sundara Rajulu, G. & Santhanakrishnan, G. (1972). An investigation of the free amino acids in the haemolymph of Arachnida. Zoologischer Anzeiger 189: 222–232. -- Show included taxa

Tarnani, J. (1890a). Ueber die Thelyphoniden aus den Sammlungen einiger Russischer Museen. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 24: 511–539. -- Show included taxa

Tikader, B.K. (1987). Handbook Indian spiders - a manual for the study of the spiders and their relatives - the scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whip scorpions, harvestmen and all members of the class Arachnida found in India with analytical keys for their classification and biology. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta. -- Show included taxa

Werner, F. (1935a). Klasse: Arachnoidea, Spinnentiere. Pedipalpen. In: Bronns, H.G. (ed.) Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig 5(IV)(8)(3): 317–490. -- Show included taxa

Kalaimani, A. (2014). Sighting records of Whip scorpion Thelyphonus indicus (Stoliczka, 1873) in Tirupattur forest division, Tamil Nadu, India. Newsletter of the Invertebrate Conservation & Information Network of South Asia (ICINSA) 21: 25-26. -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2022-07-03 New taxonomic reference entry Kalaimani, 2014