Species Dampetrus australis Karsch, 1880

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• Dampetrus australis Karsch, F. 1880. Arachnologische Blätter (Decas I). Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 53: 373-409 [403].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMB ♀, Western Australia, Australia.
  Paralectotype(s) ZMB 1♀ (identified as Dampetrus granulatus by Forster (1955)), Western Australia, Australia.
• Dampetrus fuscus Sörensen, W. 1886. Opiliones. pp. 53-86 in Koch, L. & Keyserling, K. (eds). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 2. [80].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown 7♂ 4♀, Port Mackay, Queensland, Australia; ZMH 3♀, Port Mackay, Queensland, Australia.
• Dampetrus tuberculatus Sörensen, W. 1886. Opiliones. pp. 53-86 in Koch, L. & Keyserling, K. (eds). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 2. [81].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown 4 specimens, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; whereabouts unknown 5 specimens, Gayndah, Queensland, Australia; whereabouts unknown 6 specimens, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia; whereabouts unknown 4 specimens, Bowen, Queensland, Australia.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Forster, R.R. 1955. Further Australian harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones). Australian Journal of Zoology 3: 354-411 [359] (synonymy of Dampetrus fuscus and Dampetrus tuberculatus with Dampetrus australis)

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

General References

Forster, R.R. 1955. Further Australian harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones). Australian Journal of Zoology 3: 354-411 [359] (redescription and distribution)

Roewer, C.F. 1921. Results of Dr E. Mjoberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. 24. Australische Opiliones. Arkiv för Zoologi 13(18): 1-10 [2] (distribution, as D. tuberculatus and D. fuscus)

Roewer, C.F. 1923. Die Webernechte der Erde. Jena : Gustav Fischer pp. 1-1116. [222] (redescription)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
21-Dec-2010		21-Dec-2010	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)