Species Geogarypus longidigitatus (Rainbow, 1897)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chelifer longidigitatus Rainbow, W.J. 1897. The arachnidan fauna of Funafuti. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 3: 105-124 [108].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM 2 specimens (not found in AM collections, presumably lost), Funafuti, Tuvalu.
• Garypus personatus Simon, E. 1900. Arachnida. pp. 443-519 in Sharp, D. (ed.). Fauna Hawaiiensis. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press Vol. 2. [518].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1904.x.24.450 1 ♂, Kaala Mountains, Oahu, Hawaii, USA.
• Garypus javanus Tullgren, A. 1905. Einige Chelonethiden aus Java. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 22: 37-47 [43].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMH ♂, Buitenzorg (now Bogor), Java, Indonesia.
• Geogarypus formosanus Beier, M. 1931. Neue Pseudoscorpione der U. O. Neobisiinea. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 17: 299-318 [315].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB ♂, Takao (now Kao-hsiung), Taiwan.
• Geogarypus (Geogarypus) audyi Beier, M. 1952. On some Pseudoscorpionidea from Malaya and Borneo. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum 24: 96-108 [103].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHMW ♂, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia.
• Geogarypus (Geogarypus) javanus takensis Beier, M. 1967. Pseudoscorpione vom kontinentalen Südost-Asien. Pacific Insects 9: 341-369 [352].

  Type data:

   Holotype RMNH ♂, road to Tak near Thoen, 65 km from Tak, Thailand.
• Geogarypus (Geogarypus) marquesianus Chamberlin, J.C. 1939. New and little-known false scorpions from the Marquesas Islands (Arachnida: Chelonethida). Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 142: 207-215 [208].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM JC-820.01001 ♀, Vaipee Valley, Putatauua, Uahuka, Îles Marquises, French Polynesia.
  Paratype(s) BPBM JC-820.01003 1 ♀, Vaipee Valley, Putatauua, Uahuka, Îles Marquises, French Polynesia; CAS JC-820.01002, 820.01004 2 ♀, Vaipee Valley, Putatauua, Uahuka, Îles Marquises, French Polynesia; CAS JC-816.01001 1 ♀, Pouau, Hivaoa, Îles Marquises, French Polynesia; BPBM JC-813.01001 1 ♀, Tovii, Teuanui, Nukuhiva, Îles Marquises, French Polynesia.
• Geogarypus (Geogarypus) micronesiensis Morikawa, K. 1952. Three new species of false-scorpions from the island of Marcus in the West Pacific Ocean. Memoirs of the Ehime University Natural Sciences Series B 1: 241-248 [245].

  Type data:

   Holotype EU ♀, Marcus Island, Japan.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Harvey, M.S. 2000. From Siam to Rapa Nui - the identity and distribution of Geogarypus longidigitatus (Rainbow) (Pseudoscorpiones: Geogarypidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 377-384 [377] (synonymy of Garypus personatus, G. javanus, Geogarypus formosanus, G. marquesianus, G. audyi, G. micronesiensis and G. javanus takensis with G. longidigitatus)

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• American Samoa
• Australia
  • Queensland
• Cook Islands
• Federated States of Micronesia
• Fiji
• French Polynesia
• Hawaii
• Indonesia
• Marcus Island
• Marshall Islands
• Northern Mariana Islands
• Papua New Guinea
• Samoa (American)
• Solomon Islands
• Tonga
• Tuvalu

Neotropical Region

• Easter Islands

Oriental Region

• China (People's Republic)
• Indonesia
• Malaysia
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Taiwan
• Thailand

Ecological Descriptors

Litter, soil dweller, subtropical, terrestrial, under bark, under stones.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
31-Oct-2012		31-Oct-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)