Urodacus bicolor

Monod, Lionel, Duperre, Nadine & Harms, Danilo, 2019, An annotated catalogue of the scorpion types (Arachnida, Scorpiones) held in the Zoological Museum Hamburg. Part I: Parvorder Iurida Soleglad & Fet, 2003, Evolutionary Systematics 3 (2), pp. 109-200 : 109

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.3.37464

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

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scientific name

Urodacus bicolor
status

 

Urodacus bicolor Fig. 64 A–B View Figure 64

Urodacus bicolor Werner, 1936: 182-183, fig. 3

Current senior synonym.

Urodacus novaehollandiae Peters, 1861 [synonymized by L. E. Koch 1977: 194]

Syntypes.

1 ♀ ( Fig. 64 A–B View Figure 64 , ZMH-A0001081); 1 ♀ ( ZMH-A0002185), Western Australia, Pickering Brook [32°02 ’51” S, 116°11 ’54” E], Wilhelm Michaelsen leg., Hamburg’s South-West Australia Expedition 1905 ( ZMH, Eing. Nr. 4.1926).

Remarks.

Werner (1936) reported a male and a female from Pickering Brook and a female from Upper Blackwood District, Brancaster (J. M. Whistler coll.). L. E. Koch (1977) examined the latter specimen and noted that it is a male contrary to Werner (1936) and listed it as a syntype of U. bicolor lodged in the ZMH. Koch also studied the specimens from Pickering Brook and determined them as male and female syntypes of U. bicolor . The specimen from Brancaster could not be found in the collection of the ZMH and may be lost. Given the discrepancies between the sexes of the specimens examined and the sexes reported by previous workers, we decided not to designate a lectotype. The male reported by Werner and Koch should ideally be designated as lectotype but the specimen could not be found during the course of this work.

Remarks on collector.

See paragraph on Cercophonius granulosus Kraepelin, 1908 above.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Scorpiones

Family

Urodacidae

Genus

Urodacus