Mastigoproctus giganteus (Lucas, 1835)

Species

Thelyphonus giganteus Lucas, 1835b: without pagination, plate 8; Lamarck, 1838: 117; C.L. Koch, 1843: 21-22, figs 767-768; Gervais, 1844: 12; C.L. Koch, 1850: 85; Wood, 1863b: 374; Butler, 1872: 201; Marx, 1888a: 42; Marx, 1892: 252-254; Marx, 1893: 54-55; Shipley, 1909: fig. 524.

Thelyphonus excubitor Girard, 1854: 236-238, plate XVII figs 1-4 (synonymised by Wood, 1863b: 374).

Thelyphonus rufus Butler, 1872: 205-206, fig. 8 (synonymised by Pocock, 1894a: 130).

Thelyphonus (?) rufus Butler: Tarnani, 1890a: 538.

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

Mastigoproctus giganteus (Lucas): Pocock, 1894a: 130; Kraepelin, 1897a: 37-38, figs 10b, 38b; Lönnberg, 1897a: 190; Banks, 1898: 289; Kraepelin, 1899a: 224a; Banks, 1900: 422; Kraepelin, 1901b: 263; Pocock, 1902a: figs 2, 9; Pocock, 1902b: figs 40a, 41a-b; Pocock, 1902c: 47, plate X figs 1-4; Werner, 1902: 606; Börner, 1903: fig. 15; Banks, 1904a: 143; Börner, 1904: 5, text figs 9a-b, 19, 60, figs 4, 6, 49-50, 56-58, 61, 97; Tarnani, 1905: xi; Börner, 1904: fig. 3; Buxton, 1913: 238; Comstock, 1913: 19, fig. 14; Petrunkevitch, 1913: fig. 17; Patten, 1917: 251-275, figs 1, 3-4; Howard, 1919: 26; Barrows, 1925: 500, figs 34-35; Mello-Leitão, 1931: 27, fig. 11; Kästner, 1932: figs 19, 37, 65; Werner, 1935a: 468, figs 21a, 27, 37, 42-43, 52, 66, 75, 80, 97; Snodgrass, 1948: figs 5b, 9a-h; Gertsch, 1949: 17; Millot, 1949a: fig. 49; Millot, 1949c: figs 287, 290, 292a-b, 294a-b, 297a-b, 298-299; Petrunkevitch, 1949: figs 1-2, 31-33, 43-46, 49-52; Petrunkevitch, 1952: fig. 1; Henry, 1954: 2-3, figs 1-2; Horne, 1955: 155-159; Petrunkevitch, 1955a: figs 33(2), 84(2); Kästner, 1956: fig. 514; Janetschek, 1957: figs 5-6; Eisner, Meinwald, Monro and Ghent, 1961: 272-297, figs 1-22; McKenzie, 1965: 35; Barr and Reddell, 1967: 259; Muma, 1967a: 21-23, fig. 16; Cloudsley-Thompson, 1968: 146, 147, 148; Kaestner, 1968: 117, 119, fig. 10-1; Legendre, 1968: 36, fig. 27; Levi and Levi, 1968: 116, unnumbered fig.; Besch, 1969: 730; Lawrence, 1969c: 125, 130; Weygoldt, 1969: fig. 8; Ahearn, 1970: 339-351, figs 1-6; Weygoldt, 1970b: 1-7, figs 1a-b, 2a-d, 3a-f, 4a-e; Crawford and Cloudsley-Thompson, 1971: 99-106, fig. 1; Reddell, 1971a: 28; Reddell and Mitchell, 1971a: 145, fig. 18; Reddell and Mitchell, 1971b: 185; Weygoldt, 1971: 137-141, figs 1a-b, 2a-b, 3-4, 5a-c, 6, plates Ia-d, Iia-c, IIIa-c; Weygoldt, 1972b: figs 3a-c, 6b, 7a-d, 13b; Weygoldt, 1972d: figs 5a-e, 6; Firstman, 1973: 5, 22-23, figs 14-15; Reddell and Elliott, 1973b: 183; Rowland and Cooke, 1973: 68; Cutler and Richards, 1974: 1394; Cloudsley-Thompson, 1975: 266, 273, 274; Muma, 1975b: 262; Weygoldt, 1975b: 311; Weygoldt, 1975c: figs 2a-e, 5a-c; Rowland and Reddell, 1976: 3-4; Cloudsley-Thompson, 1978: 186, 188; Jespersen, 1978: 241, figs 21-23; Cokendolpher and Bryce, 1980: 18; Garcia Acosta, 1980: 43; Haupt, Emde and Weygoldt, 1980: 205-213, figs 1-8; Crawford, 1981: 21, 35-36, 56, 59, 78, 86, 134, 137, 215, fig. 12c; Reddell, 1981: 124; Levi, 1982a: plate 94; Vasta and Cohen, 1984: 334-340; Homann, 1985: 70; Cloudsley-Thompson, 1986: 30; Shultz, 1989: 11, figs 1d, 5d, 9d, 15d; Barnes, 1987: 508, figs 13-15, 13-16a-b; Minton and Moreno, 1988: 35; Coddington, Larcher and Cokendolpher, 1990: 11; Corey and Stout, 1990: 169, 170; Crawford, 1990: 434, fig. 16.5; Weygoldt, 1990: figs 2C, 2E; Selden, Shear and Bonamo, 1991: fig. 5; Shultz, 1991: 13-31, figs 5c, 7-11; Shultz, 1992a: fig. 1a; 314-328, figs 1a, 2-3; Shultz, 1992b: 148-150, figs 1-2; Shultz, 1993: figs 1, 2a-c, 3a-b, 4a-d, 5a-b, 6, 7a-b, 8, 9a-b; Wheeler, Cartright and Hayashi, 1993: 20; Dunlop, 1994b: 267; Dunlop, 1994d: 10, unnumbered fig.; Ruppert and Barnes, 1994: fig. 13-13; Alberti, 1995: fig. 5a; Vázquez Rojas, 1995: 35, 36; Wheeler, 1995: 324; Vázquez Rojas, 1996c: 67-69; Regier and Shultz, 1997: 905; Wheeler, 1997: 89; Selden and Dunlop, 1998: fig. 7.1; Wheeler and Hyashi, 1998: 179; Alberti, 2000: 313, fig. 7a; Lazell, 2000: fig. 2a; Punzo, 2000b: 385-386; Schmidt, Dani, Jones and Morgan, 2000: 443-450; Ax, 2001: figs 47b-g; Coddington and Colwell, 2001: 211; Giribet, Edgecombe and Wheeler, 2001: 158; Punzo, 2001: 35-39, figs 3-4; Punzo and Reeves, 2001: 93-96, figs 1-2; Giribet, Edgecombe, Wheeler and Babbitt, 2002: 14; Dunlop and Martill, 2002: figs 5a-b; Weygoldt, 2002f: 466, 467, 468, fig. 634; Harvey, 2003c: 66; Schmidt, 2003: 11; Haupt, 2004b: figs 3a-d; Giribet, Richter, Edgecombe and Wheeler, 2005: 323; Punzo, 2005: 172-173; Punzo and Olsen, 2005: 206-211, fig. 1; Punzo, 2006b: 266-267; Klompen, Lekveishvili and Black, 2007: 940; Punzo, 2007: 66-72; Bourlat, Nielsen, Economou and Telford, 2008: 25; Masta and Boore, 2008: 950, 953; Regier, Shultz, Ganley, Hussey, Shi, Ball, Zwick, Stajich, Cummings, Martin and Cunningham, 2008: 923; Carrel and Britt, 2009: 500-502, figs 1-4; Haupt, 2009a: figs 1, 4, 10.

Mastigoproctus giganteus floridanus Lönnberg, 1897a: 189-191 (synonymised by Kraepelin, 1899a: 224).

Not Mastigoproctus giganteus (Lucas): Franganillo, 1930: 92 (misidentification, see Mastigoproctus pelegrini Armas); Franganillo, 1931: 48 (misidentification, see Mastigoproctus pelegrini Armas).

Type Locality

Thelyphonus giganteus: Mexico.

Thelyphonus excubitor: Red River, "Louisiana", U.S.A.

Thelyphonus rufus: unknown.

Mastigoproctus giganteus floridanus: Florida, U.S.A.

Distribution

Distribution
Mexico
United States

Latitude: 20°N

Longitude: 100°W

Coordinates based upon: Mexico (IMPRECISE)