Although the type locality Thelyphonus antillanus was given as 'St Domingo' by C.L. Koch (1843), Moritz and Fischer (1980: 137) found 6 syntypes in ZMB originating from "Port au Prince" (4 specimens), "Mexico" (1 specimen) and one without locality data.
Locality records from Java, Vanuatu (New Hebrides) and Australia are discounted as either misidentifications or mislabelled specimens].
Mastigoproctus proscorpio (Latreille, 1806)
Species
Thelyphonus proscorpio Latreille, 1806: 130; Leach, 1814: 428 (as Thelyphronus [sic] proscorpio); Leach, 1816: 434; Lamarck, 1818: 86-87; Latreille, 1818b: 12, plate 343; Pohl and Kollar, 1832: 4, fig. 2; Lamarck, 1838: 116-117; Lamarck, 1839: 304; C.L. Koch, 1843: 26-27, fig. 771 ("Ostindien, Java" - misidentification?); C.L. Koch, 1850: 85.
Thelyphonus antillanus C.L. Koch, 1843: 29-30, fig. 773; C.L. Koch, 1850: 85; Lucas, 1857: lxxi, plate 5 fig. 4 (as Thelyphonus antillianus); Butler, 1872: 202; Pocock, 1894b: 404; Moritz and Fischer, 1980: 137 (synonymised by Pocock, 1894a: 130).
Thelyphonus australianus C.L. Koch, 1843: 33-34, fig. 775; C.L. Koch, 1850: 85; Butler, 1872: 202 (synonymised by Kraepelin, 1897a: 38).
Thelyphonus (?) australianus C.L. Koch: Tarnani, 1890a: 537.
Mastigoproctus proscorpio (Latreille): Pocock, 1894a: 130; Kraepelin, 1897a: 38-39, figs 38a, 39; Kraepelin, 1899a: 224-225 (in part; see Mastigoproctus butleri (Pocock)): Kraepelin, 1901b: 263; Börner, 1904: 5, text fig. 43, figs 39, 75, 82-83; Tarnani, 1905: xi; Scheuring, 1913: 590; Mello-Leitão, 1931: 31; Kästner, 1932: figs 66, 67; Werner, 1935a: 468, figs 106, 111-112; Rowland and Cooke, 1973: 68; Armas, Maracano Fondeur and Abud Antun, 1989: [2-4]; Vázquez Rojas, 1995: 36; Vázquez Rojas, 1996c: 69; Lazell, 2000: fig. 2c; Harvey, 2003c: 67-68; Armas, 2004b: 24, 53, figs 2.1, 2.3; Teruel and Armas, 2005: 133, fig. 9; Perez-Gelabert, 2008: 69.
Not Thelyphonus proscorpio Latreille: Butler, 1872: 202 (misidentification; see Uroproctus assamensis (Stoliczka)).
Type Locality
Thelyphonus proscorpio: Martinique.
Thelyphonus antillanus: Port-au-Prince, , Haiti.
Mexico.
Thelyphonus australianus: Australia (as Neu-Holland), but undoubtedly mislabelled.
Distribution
Although the type locality Thelyphonus antillanus was given as 'St Domingo' by C.L. Koch (1843), Moritz and Fischer (1980: 137) found 6 syntypes in ZMB originating from "Port au Prince" (4 specimens), "Mexico" (1 specimen) and one without locality data.
Locality records from Java, Vanuatu (New Hebrides) and Australia are discounted as either misidentifications or mislabelled specimens].
Thelyphonus proscorpio Latreille, 1806
Thelyphonus antillanus C.L. Koch, 1843
Thelyphonus australianus C.L. Koch, 1843
Latitude: 14°36'N
Longitude: 61°W
Coordinates based upon: Martinique (IMPRECISE)
Uropygi Thorell 1883
Order
Thelyphonoidea Lucas 1835
Superfamily
Thelyphonidae Lucas, 1835
Family
Mastigoproctinae Speijer 1933
Subfamily
Mastigoproctus Pocock, 1894
Genus