Phrynarachne ceylonica (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1884)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030967

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Described:

Distribution: India, Sri Lanka, Japan, China, Taiwan, Laos

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Type Repository Provide information
  • Syntype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK 2f - (Lin et al., 2022b)
  • Syntype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK 2m of Phrynarachne nigra - (Lin et al., 2022b)
Taxonomic References
Ornithoscatoides ceylonica O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1884a: 201, pl. 15, f. 3 (Df) Original description
Ornithoscatoides nigra O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1884a: 202, pl. 15, f. 4 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056744]
Phrynarachne ceylonica Thorell, 1891: 97
Phrynarachne ceylonica Simon, 1895a: 1043, f. 1087
Phrynarachne nigra Simon, 1895a: 1045
Phrynarachne ceylonica Ono, 1988c: 25, f. 11-17 (mf, S of Phrynarachne nigra)
Phrynarachne ceylonica Zhu & Song, 2006: 549, f. 1-5 (mf)
Phrynarachne ceylonica Ono, 2009a: 504, f. 50-55 (mf)
Phrynarachne ceylonica Das, Kalita & Mahanta, 2019: 986, f. 1A-B, 2-7 (f)
Phrynarachne ceylonica Dash & Sivaperuman, 2021a: 50, f. 2a-d, 3a-b (f)
Phrynarachne ceylonica Omelko, 2025: 62, f. 14-19, 26 (f)
References

Das, S., Kalita, J. & Mahanta, N. (2019). New report of Phrynarachne ceylonica (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1884) (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Assam, India. International Journal of Scientific Research and Reviews 8(2): 985-990. -- Show included taxa

Dash, M. & Sivaperuman, C. (2021a). Notes on the presence of Phrynarachne ceylonica (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1884) from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. World News of Natural Sciences 35: 48-55. -- Show included taxa

Omelko, M. M. (2025). New species and new records of Phrynarachne crab spiders (Araneae, Thomisidae) from Southeast Asia. ZooKeys 1257: 55-70. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1257.165973 -- Show included taxa

Ono, H. (1988c). A revisional study of the spider family Thomisidae (Arachnida, Araneae) of Japan. National Science Museum Tokyo, 252 pp. -- Show included taxa

Ono, H. (2009a). The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, 739 pp. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1884a). On two new genera of spiders. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 52(2): 196-205, pl. 40. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1884.tb02819.x -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1895a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 761-1084. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1891). Spindlar från Nikobarerna och andra delar af södra Asien. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 24(2): 1-149. -- Show included taxa

Zhu, M. S. & Song, D. X. (2006). A new discovery of the male spider and a new record from China (Araneae, Thomisidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 31: 549-552. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-10-24 New taxonomic reference entry Omelko, 2025
2025-10-24 Species distribution update Omelko, 2025 Old value
2021-01-27 New taxonomic reference entry Dash & Sivaperuman, 2021a
2019-10-09 New taxonomic reference entry Das, Kalita & Mahanta, 2019
2019-10-09 Species distribution update Das, Kalita & Mahanta, 2019 Old value

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