Blind Tail-less Whipscorpion Draculoides sp. indet.

Fauna Portal species: 11157

Order: Schizomida (Tail-less Whipscorpions)

Family: Hubbardiidae

Diagnosis

The species in this image has not been identified and is therefore listed as 'sp. indet.'

Australia

Western Australia

Distribution

Blind Tail-less Whipscorpions in the genus Draculoides belong to one of the most common faunal elements in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Publications

Abrams K.M., Huey J.A., Hillyer M.A., Didham R.K and Harvey M.S. (2020): A systematic revision of Draculoides (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae) of the Pilbara, Western Australia, Part I: the Western Pilbara. Zootaxa. 4864: 1 - 75

Framenau V.W., Hamilton Z.R., Finston T., Humphreys G., Abrams K.M., Huey J.A. and Harvey M.S. (2018): Molecular and morphological characterization of new species of hypogean Paradraculoides (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae) from the arid Pilbara bioregion of Western Australia. Journal of Arachnology. 46: 507 - 537

Volker Framenau, 30 July 2021