Solpuga chelicornis Lichtenstein, 1796

Species

Galeodes setigera Olivier, 1791: 579, 580; Lamarck, 1801: 176; Latreille, 1817b: 373 (as Galeodes setifera [sic]); Audouin, 1825: 118 (tentatively synonymised with Solpuga chelicornis by Lamarck, 1818: 79).

Solpuga chelicornis Lichtenstein, 1796: 218; Lichtenstein, in Lichtenstein and Herbst, 1797: 40, plate 2 figs 1, 1a-b; Fabricius, 1798: 294; Latreille, 1818b: 11, plate 342; Gervais, 1844: 89; Karsch, 1880a: 236, fig. 1; Pocock, 1897c: 266; Kraepelin, 1901a: 59-60, fig. 17; Purcell, 1902: 210-211; Kraepelin, 1908c: 215; Kraepelin, 1914b: 123; Hewitt, 1919b: 39-41, plate III fig. 11; Dean and Milton, 1991: 266-267; International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1995: 283; Harvey, 2003c: 306-307; Dippenaar-Schoeman, González Reyes and Harvey, 2006: 81.

Solpuga africana Lichtenstein, in Lichtenstein and Herbst, 1797: 44, plate 2 fig. 2; Gervais, 1844: 89; Butler, 1873d: 423; Simon, 1879a: 152 (synonymised by Karsch, 1880a: 236).
Galeodes chelicornis (Lichtenstein): Lamarck, 1818: 79; Lamarck, 1838: 107; Lamarck, 1839: 301.

Solpuga iubata C.L. Koch, 1842: 352; C.L. Koch, 1847: 73-74, fig. 1467; C.L. Koch, 1850: 96 (as Solpuga jubata) (synonymised by Simon, 1879a: 109).

Solpuga jubata C.L. Koch: Butler, 1873d: 421; Pocock, 1897c: 266; Moritz and Fischer, 1980: 144.

Solpuga setigera (Olivier): Pocock, 1897c: 266.

Solpugema chelicornis (Lichtenstein): Roewer, 1933: fig. 214b.

Solpugopa chelicornis (Lichtenstein): Roewer, 1933: 480, figs 305b, b<1>; Warren, 1939a: 165-167, figs 7, 8(7, 8), plate XVII figs 12-15; Warren, 1939b: fig. 9(4); Roewer, 1941: 156; Lawrence, 1955: 201; Lawrence, 1963: 22, 25.

Solpuga sp. near chelicornis Lichtenstein: Hewitt, 1935: 476.

Solpugopa chelicornis chelicornis (Lichtenstein): Zilch, 1946: 138.

Solpuga (Solpugopa) chelicornis Lichtenstein: Lawrence, 1949b: 208.

Not Solpuga chelicornis Lichtenstein: Butler, 1873d: 422 (see Solpugema hostilis (White)).

Not Gaetulia setigera (Olivier): Simon, 1879a: 109-110, fig. 5 (see Solpugema lateralis (C.L. Koch)).

Type Locality

Galeodes setigera: Cape of Good Hope (as Cap de Bonne-Espérance), Western Cape, South Africa.

Solpuga chelicornis: "Amboina", but presumably incorrect.

Solpuga africana: southern Africa (as "Africa australi").

Solpuga iubata: South Africa (as "Cap").

Distribution

Distribution
Botswana
Namibia
South Africa

An application has been made to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature to conserve the widely used Solpuga chelicornis by the suppression of the senior synonym Galeodes setigera (in press a).

Latitude: 34°21'S

Longitude: 18°28'E

Coordinates based upon: Cape of Good Hope