Purcellia argasiformis

Purcellia argasiformis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scopulophthalmi
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Opiliones Subordo: Cyphophthalmi Infraorden: Scopulophthalmi

Familia: Pettalidae
Genera: Purcellia
Species: Purcellia argasiformis

Name

• Purcellia argasiformis (Lawrence, 1931).

Type locality: South Africa, Western Cape Province, Wynberg Caves (Cape Peninsula).

Typus: Holotype female ♀ SAMC-ENW B001473

Synonyms

• Speleosiro argasiformis Lawrence, 1931: 348, figs. 2a–d. Protonym; Giribet et al., 2013: 416.
• Purcellia argasiformis (Lawrence, 1931). Synonymy in Giribet et al., 2016: 537.

Primary references

• Lawrence, R.F. 1931. The harvest-spiders (Opiliones) of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 29: 341–508. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• de Bivort, B.L. & Giribet, G. 2010. A systematic revision of the South African Pettalidae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi) based on a combined analysis of discrete and continuous morphological characters with the description of seven new species. Invertebrate Systematics 24(4): 371–406. DOI: 10.1071/IS10015 Reference page. 
• Giribet, G., de Bivort, B.L., Hitchcock, A. & Swart, S. 2013. On Speleosiro argasiformis—a troglobitic Cyphophthalmi (Arachnida: Opiliones: Pettalidae) from Table Mountain, South Africa. Journal of Arachnology 41(3): 416–419. DOI: 10.1636/Ha12-78.1 Reference page. 
• Giribet, G., Boyer, S.L., Baker, C.M., Fernández, R., Sharma, P., de Bivort, B.L., Daniels, S.R.., Harvey, M.S. & Griswold, C.E. 2016. A molecular phylogeny of the temperate Gondwanan family Pettalidae (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi) and the limits of taxonomic sampling. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 178: 523–545. Reference page. 
• Kury, A.B., Mendes, A.C., Cardoso, L., Kury, M.S., Granado, A. d. A., Giribet, G., Cruz-López, J.A., Longhorn, S.J., Medrano, M. & de Oliveira, A.B.R. 2023. World Catalogue of Opiliones (WCO-Lite version 2.5.1 - June 2023. Digital resource at wcolite.com). In: O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D.R. Hernández Robles, C.A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, L. Vandepitte, D. Hobern, P. Schalk, R.E. DeWalt, M. Keping, J. Miller, T. Orrell, R. Aalbu, J. Abbott, R. Adlard, E.M. Adriaenssens, et al. Catalogue of Life Checklist (Version 2023-07-13). DOI: 10.48580/dfsy-4pt Reference page.  [accessed on January 11, 2024]

Links

• BHL bibliography
• Purcellia argasiformis – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Purcellia argasiformis.
• ION

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