Phrynichus reniformis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Species, nomen dubium

Phalangium reniforme Linnaeus, 1758: 619; Linnaeus, 1760: 619; Linnaeus, 1764: 427; Linnaeus, 1767: 1029; Pallas, 1772: 33-35, plate III figs 3-4; %Linnaeus, 1774: 417 (not seen); Fabricius, 1775: 441; Pallas, 1777: 44-46, plate 3 figs 3-4; Fabricius, 1781: 548-549; Fabricius, 1787: 347; Linnaeus, 1788: 2945; Herbst, in Lichtenstein and Herbst, 1797: 79-82, plate V fig 1; International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 2004: 186-187.

Tarantula reniformis (Linnaeus): Fabricius, 1793: 432-433; Lichtenstein, 1796: 219; Leach, 1814: 428; Pocock, 1894d: 297; Kraepelin, 1895: 10, figs 1, 6 (see also Phrynichus ceylonicus (C.L. Koch), Phrynichus deflersi Simon, Phrynichus jayakari Pocock, Phrynichus madagascariensis Weygoldt, Phrynichus nigrimanus (C.L. Koch), Phrynichus phipsoni Pocock, Phrynichus pusillus Pocock and Phrynichus scaber (Gervais)); Lönnberg, 1897a: 188-189; Lönnberg, 1898: 88-89 (in part, see also Phrynichus ceylonicus (C.L. Koch), Phrynichus deflersi Simon, Phrynichus jayakari Pocock and Phrynichus scaber (Gervais)).

Phrynus reniformis (Linnaeus): Lamarck, 1801: 175; Latreille, 1804: 136; Latreille, 1806: 129; Latreille, 1817a: 102; Lamarck, 1818: 88; Latreille, 1818b: 12, plate 343; Duméril, 1826: 60; Latreille, 1833: plate 1 fig. 1; Dugès and Edwards, 1836: plate 16 figs 1, 1a-f; Lamarck, 1838: 118; Lamarck, 1839: 305; C.L. Koch, 1840: 12-13, fig. 600; Hoeven, 1842a: 20, unnumbered fig. (misidentification?); Gervais, 1844: 5, plate 23 fig. 1; Woodward, 1872: plate IX fig. 3; Butler, 1873c: 118, plate 6 fig. 3; Butler, 1879: 315.

Tarantula (Phrynus) reniformis (Linnaeus): Guérin-Méneville, 1838b: 9, plate 3 fig. 1.

Damon reniformis (Linnaeus): C.L. Koch, 1850: 81.

Phrynichus reniformis (Linnaeus): Karsch, 1879a: 197; Karsch, 1891: 302-303; Kraepelin, 1899a: 237, figs 85-86 (see also Phrynichus ceylonicus (C.L. Koch), Phrynichus deflersi Simon, Phrynichus jayakari Pocock, Phrynichus madagascariensis Weygoldt, Phrynichus nigrimanus (C.L. Koch), Phrynichus phipsoni Pocock, Phrynichus pusillus Pocock and Phrynichus scaber (Gervais)); Kraepelin, 1901b: 264; Börner, 1902d: 214; Werner, 1902: 607; Börner, 1903: fig. 14; Börner, 1904: 5, text fig. 11, figs 1, 12, 19, 32-35; Arldt, 1908: 441, 444 (p. 441, as Phrynichus renifer [sic])Kraepelin, 1908c: 203, 205, fig. 37; Gravely, 1915b: 449; Lampe, 1918: 205; Mello-Leitão, 1931: 36 (as Phrynicus [sic] scaber); Kästner, 1932: figs 14, 61; Werner, 1935a: 472, figs 17, 29, 36, 85; Speijer, 1936b: 262; Petrunkevitch, 1955a: 126, fig. 36; Weygoldt, 1998c: 53-54 (designated as nomen dubium); Weygoldt, 2002e: 242-243; Harvey, 2003c: 18; Harvey, 2007: 365-366.

Not Tarantula reniformis (Linnaeus): Pocock, 1894b: 404-407 (misidentification, see Phrynus tessellatus (Pocock)).

Not Phrynichus reniformis (Linnaeus): Strand, 1913: 326 (misidentification, see Euphrynichus bacillifer (Gerstaecker)).

Type Locality

America (presumably in error).

Distribution

All New World records are considered to be misidentified.
Although having access to the holotype (lodged in the Zoological Museum of the University of Uppsala), Weygoldt (1998c) has ignored the name in favour of P. ceylonicus; a case has been submitted to the International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature to suppress the older name.

Phalangium reniforme Linnaeus, 1758