FUNDus!
Phalangium medium Herbst 1797
Name: Phalangium medium Herbst 1797 Country / Sea: Africa Type: Neotype Location: Liberia unknown Collection name: Chelicerata and Myriapoda Class: Arachnida Order: Amblypygi Family: Phrynidae Preparation: alcohol
Collection: Whip spiders/ Amblypygi
The whip spiders are very similar to the real spiders, but they differ from them by an articulated hind body, the flagellate and very long first pairs of legs, and the presence of a "catching basket" of reshaped leg-switches, with whose help small insects are seized. Whip spiders are mainly found in the tropics and belong to the oldest animal groups of all. Of the approximately 200 species worldwide, 10 are represented in the collection by valuable type-material.
Contact:
Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change - Hamburg site
Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3
20146 Hamburg
Phone: +49 40 238317-616
E-mail: D.Harms@leibniz-lib.de
