An annotated type catalogue of the camel spiders (Arachnida: Solifugae) held in the Zoological Museum Hamburg
Harms, Danilo
Dupérré, Nadine
Zootaxa
2018
2018-01-23
4375
1
1
58
44KCT
Roewer 1934
Roewer
1934
[151,579,1579,1605]
Arachnida
Mummuciidae
Mummucina
GBIF
Animalia
Solifugae
37
38
Arthropoda
species
titschacki
Roewer 1934: 589, fig. 334h (as Mummucina titschacki nov. spec.)
Type locality and specimens.nur ♀— Ecuador( Riobamba)—(vidi 1 ♀, Typus). Dimensions.Korperlänge 11 mm. [prosoma + opisthosoma 8.90]
Oldest label. Mummucia variegataSim., Dr. Ohausl., c. 15.XII.06, Riobamba, Ecuador, (unter [illeg.]) ( Kraepelinhandwriting). Additional label. Mummucina titschacki, 1♀—nov. spec. Typus, Ecuador, Roewerrv. 1931. No8372 (Roewer handwriting).
Type material.Holotype ♀ (ZMH-A0000210). Damaged, missing one chelicera and leg parts. Taxonomic remarks.Roewer had a single female for his description but there are some body parts (3+4 legs, pedipalp, chelicerae) of a female holotypein the SMF(catalog no. 6821). The female at the ZMHis indeed missing a chelicera, a palp and some legs. Botero-Trujillo (2014) presented a re-description of the species and mentions that the typeis shared between two collections. Female holotype: body and some appendages housed in the ZMH” and “Female holotype: one leg III, one leg IV, a pedipalp and the left chelicera in a microscope slide housed in the Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt ( SMF)”.
Collection remarks.The specimen was collected by German entomologist Friedrich Ohaus ( 1864–1946) who participated in three zoological expeditions to SouthAmerica in his role as the ship’s medical doctor. The relevant expedition took place from August 1904to April 1906and Ohaus was traveling over the Cordilleras from RioVillano to Cururay and Napoto Iquitos, and then down the Amazon Riverto Para, Brazil( Nissen 1952). Current systematic position. Mummuciidae, Mummucina titschacki Roewer 1934.
1804707997
[585,1050,1754,1779]
Ecuador
Riobamba
37
38
1
1
holotype
1804707996
2006-12-15
Ecuador
Riobamba
Kraepelin
37
38
1
1804707982
[199,1226,1898,1923]
Ecuador
Roewer
37
38
1
1
holotype
1804708015
Ecuador
No
37
38
1
No
holotype