Thelyphonus caudatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Species

Phalangium caudatum Linnaeus, 1758: 619; Linnaeus, 1760: 619; Linnaeus, 1764: 426; Linnaeus, 1767: 1029; Pallas, 1772: 30-33, plate III figs 1-2; Fabricius, 1775: 441; Fabricius, 1781: 548; Fabricius, 1787: 347; Linnaeus, 1788: 2945; Roemer, 1789: 33, 67; Herbst, in Lichtenstein and Herbst, 1797: 84-88, plate V fig. 2.

Tarantula caudata (Linnaeus): Fabricius, 1793: 433; Lichtenstein, 1796: 219.

Phrynus caudatus (Linnaeus): Lamarck, 1801: 175-176.

Thelyphonus caudatus (Linnaeus): Latreille, 1802: 47; Latreille, 1804: 132; Latreille, 1810: 424; Latreille, 1817a: 102; Duméril, 1828: 453; Latreille, 1833: plate 1 fig. 3 (as Theliphonus [sic] caudatus); Lucas, 1835b: without pagination, plate 9 fig. 1; Dugès and Edwards, 1836: plate 15 figs 11, 11a-e; Guérin-Méneville, 1838b: 11, plate 4 fig. 3; Lamarck, 1838: 117; Gervais, 1844: 12-13; Blanchard, 1852: 138, plate 8 figs 1-6, plate 9 figs 1-9, plate 10 figs 1-8; Butler, 1872: 205; Karsch, 1879c: 548; Thorell, 1888: 370-382; Tarnani, 1890a: 529-533, 536; Strubell, 1892: 87-88; Strubell, 1892b: 419; Hansen, 1894: 167, 168; Adensamer, 1894: 424-425 (as Telyphonus [sic] caudatus); Pocock, 1894a: 122; Tarnani, 1894: 30; Thorell, 1894: 13-14; Simon, 1896b: 351; Kraepelin, 1897a: 24-25, figs 22a, 22b; Lönnberg, 1897a: 189; Lönnberg, 1898: 88; Kraepelin, 1899a: 217; Tarnani, 1899a: 119; Kraepelin, 1901b: 263; Börner, 1902a: fig. 5; Börner, 1902b: figs 1, 5; Börner, 1902c: figs 3, 5; Werner, 1902: 606; Schimkewitsch, 1903: 665-685, figs 1-6 (as Telyphonus [sic] caudatus); Börner, 1904: 4, text figs 5, 15-16, 22, 25, 29, 35a, 46, 49-52, 61-62, 69, figs 1, 7-9, 13, 24, 41a, 45, 47, 52-54, 59-60, 74, 76-81, 100; Tarnani, 1905: xi; Schimkewitsch, 1906b: 1-84, figs 1-90; Daiber, 1913: fig. 13; Scheuring, 1913: 590; Gravely, 1916: 75, plate 3 figs 28-29, plate 4 figs 37-38; Lampe, 1918: 204; Strubell, 1926: 301-314; Giltay, 1931: 20, 24-25; Mello-Leitão, 1931: 32, fig. 3; Speijer, 1931a: 81; Speijer, 1931b: 194-195, 198; Kästner, 1932: figs 5, 9, 22, 33, 43, 51-52, 54, 75-79, 92; Werner, 1932: 577; Speijer, 1933a: iv; Speijer, 1933b: 67-68; Reimoser, 1934: 13; Savory, 1935: plate VI; Werner, 1935a: 468, figs 15, 23-24, 39, 41, 44-45, 48-49, 54, 61, 68a, 77, 78a, 79a, 81-82, 99, 135-136, 138, 157; Speijer, 1936b: 255; Speijer, 1937: 171; Fage, 1946a: 74-75; Takashima, 1947: 44; Dammerman, 1948: 494-495; Millot, 1949a: fig. 91; Millot, 1949c: fig. 315; Kästner, 1952a: fig. 6; Dubinin, 1962: fig. 1265; Klingel, 1963a: 452-459, figs 1-9 (as Telyphonus [sic] caudatus); Klingel, 1963b: 65-69, figs 1-9 (as Telyphonus [sic] caudatus); Cloudsley-Thompson, 1968: 149, 150, 151; Kaestner, 1968: 117-119, fig. 10-2; Legendre, 1968: 34; Schaller, 1971: 422-423, 19a-b (as Telyphonus [sic] caudatus); Rowland and Cooke, 1973: 66; Meyer-Rochow, 1987: 325-339, figs 2-20; %Edwards, 1988: 1 (not seen); Harvey, 2003c: 72-73; Harvey, 2007: 364; Haupt, 2009a: fig. 7; Krehenwinkel, Curio, Tacud and Haupt, 2009: fig. 10.

Thelyphonus rufimanus Lucas, 1835b: without pagination, plate 10 fig. 1; Lamarck, 1838: 117; Gervais, 1844: 13, plate 22 fig. 5 (tentatively synonymised by Kraepelin, 1897a: 24).

Thelyphonus rufipes Lucas, 1835b: without pagination, plate 9 fig. 2; Lamarck, 1838: 117; C.L. Koch, 1843: 23, fig. 769; Gervais, 1844: 13-14; C.L. Koch, 1850: 85; Doleschall, 1857: 404; Butler, 1872: 202 (synonymised by Thorell, 1888: 371).

Thelyphonus thorellii Tarnani, 1890a: 529, 538; Hansen, 1894: 167 (synonymised by Thorell, 1894: 13).

Thelyphonus (?) rufipes Lucas: Tarnani, 1890a: 538.

Thelyphonus (?) rufimanus Lucas: Tarnani, 1890a: 538.

Thelyphonus caudatus sexspinosus Speijer, 1933b: 68 (synonymised by Speijer, 1937: 173).

Thelyphonus caudatus var. sixtaspinosus [sic] Speijer: Speijer, 1936b: 255.

Not Thelyphonus rufimanus Lucas: Butler, 1872: 202 (misidentification; see Uroproctus assamensis (Stoliczka)).

Not Thelyphonus caudatus (Linnaeus): Reimoser, 1931: 750 (misidentification, see Thelyphonus seticauda Doleschall).

Type Locality

Phalangium caudatum: "India", later modified to Java, Indonesia (Linnaeus, 1764, 1767).

Thelyphonus rufimanus: Java, Indonesia.

Thelyphonus rufipes: unknown.

Thelyphonus thorellii: Jakarta (as Batavia), Jawa Barat, Java, Indonesia.

Thelyphonus caudatus sexspinosus: Bogor (as Buitenzorg), Jawa Barat, Java, Indonesia.

Distribution

Distribution
Indonesia
Vietnam

Records from China (Hong Kong), Sri Lanka and Vietnam are probably incorrect.

Latitude: 7°30'S

Longitude: 111°E

Coordinates based upon: Java (IMPRECISE)