Amblypygi

Charinus cf. africanus, copyright Arthur Anker.

Belongs within: Arachnida.
Contains: Neoamblypygi.

The Amblypygi, whip-spiders, are a group of flattened arachnids with raptorial pedipalps and extremely long, filamentous front legs that are used as tactile organs (Harvey 2002).

<==Amblypygi
    |  i. s.: Admetus Koch 1850 GE02, BR05
    |           |--A. pomilio GE02
    |           `--A. whitei B06
    |         Hemiphrynus viridiceps B06
    |--Paracharon [Paleoamblypygi, Paracharontidae] W99
    |    `--P. caecus Hansen 1921 W99
    `--Euamblypygi [Phrynoidae] W99
         |--Charinidae W99
         |    |--Catageus Thorell 1889 W99, H02
         |    |    `--*C. pusillus Thorell 1889 T89
         |    |--+--Phrynichosarax W99
         |    |  `--Sarax Simon 1892 W99, H02
         |    |       |--S. mediterraneus Delle Cave 1986 W05
         |    |       `--S. sarawakensis (Thorell 1888) W99
         |    `--Charinus Simon 1892 W05 (see below for synonymy)
         |         |--*C. australianus (Koch 1867) [=Phrynus australianus] VGF14
         |         |--C. abbatei Delle Cave 1986 W05
         |         |--C. acaraje Pinto-da-Rocha et al. 2002 VGF14
         |         |--C. acosta (Quintero 1983) W05
         |         |--C. africanus Hansen 1921 W99
         |         |--C. asturius Pinto-da-Rocha et al. 2002 VGF14
         |         |--C. bengalensis (Gravely 1911) [=*Charinides bengalensis] W05
         |         |--C. brasilianus Weygoldt 1972 W05
         |         |--C. dhofarensis Weygoldt, Pohl & Polak 2002 W05
         |         |--C. eleonorae Baptista & Giupponi 2003 VGF14
         |         |--C. ioanniticus (Kritscher 1959) W05 [=*Lindosiella ioannitica El-H02]
         |         |--C. jibaossu Vasconcelos, Giupponi & Ferreira 2014 VGF14
         |         |--C. koepckei Weygoldt 1972 W05
         |         |--C. madagascariensis Fage 1954 W05
         |         |--C. milloti Fage 1939 W05
         |         |--C. montanus Weygoldt 1972 W99
         |         |--C. mysticus Giupponi & Kury 2002 VGF14
         |         |--C. neocaledonicus Kraepelin 1895 W05
         |         |--C. pakistanus Weygoldt 2005 W05
         |         |--C. pescotti Dunn 1949 W05
         |         |--C. potiguar Vasconcelos et al. 2013 VGF14
         |         |--C. schirchii (Mello-Leitão 1931) (n. d.) VGF14
         |         |--C. seychellarum Kraepelin 1898 W05
         |         |--C. socotranus Weygoldt, Pohl & Polak 2002 W05
         |         |--C. stygochthobius Weygoldt & Van Damme 2004 W05
         |         |--C. troglobius Baptista & Giupponi 2002 VGF14
         |         `--C. vulgaris Miranda & Giupponi 2011 VGF14
         `--Neoamblypygi W99

Charinus Simon 1892 W05 [incl. Charinides Gravely 1911 W05, Lindosiella Kritscher 1959 El-H02, Tricharinus Quintero 1986 W05]

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[B06] Banks, N. 1906. Arachnida from the Bahamas. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 22: 185–189.

[BR05] Bouchet, P., J.-P. Rocroi, J. Frýda, B. Hausdorf, W. Ponder, Á. Valdés & A. Warén. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47 (1–2): 1–397.

[El-H02] El-Hennawy, H. K. 2002. The first record of Amblypygi from Egypt. Journal of Arachnology 30 (2): 452–453.

[GE02] Giribet, G., G. D. Edgecombe, W. C. Wheeler & C. Babbitt. 2002. Phylogeny and systematic position of Opiliones: a combined analysis of chelicerate relationships using morphological and molecular data. Cladistics 18: 5–70.

[H02] Harvey, M. S. 2002. The neglected cousins: what do we know about the smaller arachnid orders? Journal of Arachnology 30 (2): 357–372.

[T89] Thorell, T. 1889. Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. XXI.—Aracnidi Artrogastri Birmani raccolti da L. Fea nel 1885–1887. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Serie 2a 7: 521–729.

[VGF14] Vasconcelos, A. C. O., A. P. L. Giupponi & R. L. Ferreira. 2014. A new species of Charinus from Minas Gerais State, Brazil, with comments on its sexual dimorphism (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae). Journal of Arachnology 42 (2): 155–162.

[W99] Weygoldt, P. 1999. Spermatophores and the evolution of female genitalia in whip spiders (Chelicerata, Amblypygi). Journal of Arachnology 27: 103–116.

[W05] Weygoldt, P. 2005. Biogeography, systematic position, and reproduction of Charinus ioanniticus (Kritscher 1959) with the description of a new species from Pakistan (Chelicerata, Amblypygi, Charinidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 85 (1): 43–56.