Biology:Weygoldtia

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Short description: Genus of whip scorpions

Weygoldtia
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Amblypygi
Family: Charinidae
Genus: Weygoldtia
Miranda, Giupponi, Prendini & Scharff, 2018
Type species
Weygoldtia davidovi
(Fage, 1946)
Species

3, see text

Weygoldtia is a genus of amblypygids of the family Charinidae, described in 2018 by Gustavo Silva de Miranda, Alessandro P.L. Giupponi, Lorenzo Prendini and Nikolaj Scharff. The genus is named after the German arachnologist Peter Weygoldt, in recognition of his contributions to the study of Amblypygi.[1][2]

Species

(As of October 2022), there are three species in this genus, all distributed in Southeast Asia.[3]

  • Weygoldtia consonensis Miranda, Giupponi, Prendini & Scharff, 2021 – Vietnam
  • Weygoldtia davidovi (Fage, 1946) – Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam
  • Weygoldtia hainanensis Zhu, Li & He, 2021China

References

Wikidata ☰ Q101664191 entry