Uroplectes gracilior Hewitt 1913
Authors/Creators
- 1. Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79 th Street, New York, NY 10024 - 5192, USA
- 2. Department of Arachnology, National Museum of Namibia, Robert Mugabe Avenue 59, Windhoek, Namibia
Description
Uroplectes gracilior Hewitt, 1913
Uroplectes carinatus gracilior: Hewitt 1913: 147–148 (part).
Material examined: 1♀(AMNH [AH 3293]), Brandberg, hill 282, opposite Orabes Wall [21°15'S: 14°38'E], 1.ii.1981, A. Harington, sympatric with H.conspersus, P. kraepelini, O. jenseni, O.lamorali and O. wahlbergii; 3 ♂ Messum Crater area [21°25'S: 14°13'E], 21.i.1981, syntopic with P.brevimanus and P. gracilis (2 ♂ AMNH [AH 2165]), 23.xii.1988 (1 ♂ AMNH [AH 4117]), A. Harington.
Ecology and distribution: This lapidicolous species (Fig. 15) shelters under stones and in grass tussocks (Lamoral 1979; Prendini 2001 b) on rocky outcrops and gravel plains in areas surrounding the Brandberg (Fig. 1) and adjacent landforms (e.g. the Messum Crater). Although it may also occur in Angola, this species has been recorded only from Namibia and South Africa (Lamoral 1979; Prendini 2005 a).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Hewitt
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Scorpiones
- Family
- Buthidae
- Genus
- Uroplectes
- Species
- gracilior
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Uroplectes gracilior Hewitt, 1913 sec. Prendini & Bird, 2008
References
- HEWITT, J. 1913. The Percy Sladen Memorial Expedition to Great Namaqualand, 1912 - 1913. Records and descriptions of the Arachnida of the collection. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 4: 146 - 159.