Genus: Charinus Simon, 1892 | Family: Charinidae Quintero, 1986 | Order: Amblypygi Thorell, 1883

Charinus eleonorae Baptista and Giupponi, 2003

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Charinus eleonorae

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:335842d0-8c45-450c-b089-f17c40a52386

Taxonomic references

Charinus eleonorae Baptista and Giupponi:

Baptista and Giupponi, 2003: 80–84, figs. 1–14 original description
Trajano and Bichuette, 2010: 12
Miranda and Giupponi, 2011: 66, fig. 13
Vasconcelos, Giupponi and Ferreira, 2013: 496, fig. 12
Armas, 2014a: 119
Monte, Gallão, Schimonsky and Bichuette, 2015: 6–8
Torres-Contreras, Álvarez García and Armas, 2015: 148
Miranda, Aharon, Gavish-Regev, Giupponi and Wizen, 2016: 3
Miranda, Milleri-Pinto, Gonçalves-Souza, Giupponi and Scharff, 2016: 19, 29
Miranda, Giupponi, Prendini and Scharff, 2021: 108−109, fig. 43, table 4
Miranda, Giupponi, Scharff and Prendini, 2022: 137, fig. 1g
de Souza and Ferreira, 2025: 238, Fig. 21

Distribution
Distribution table

Realm: South America

Brazil
Type locality: Gruta Olhos d'Água, Itacarambi, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Gruta Olhos d'Água -15.113055 -44.169722
Type repository
  • Holotype Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Male (MNRJ 9070)
  • Paratype Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 7 males, 6 females, 2 male juveniles, 2 female juveniles, (MNRJ 9033); same locality as holotype
  • Paratype Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZSP), São Paulo, Brazil 1 male; same locality as holotype
  • Paratype Instituto de Ecología e Sistemática (IES), Havanna, Cuba 1 male; same locality as holotype
  • Paratype Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1 female (MNRJ 9024); same locality as holotype
  • Paratype Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (9023) 1 female, 1 juvenile, (MNRJ 9023); same locality as holotype
References

Armas, L.F. de (2014a). Tipos de Amblypygi (Arachnida: Pedipalpi) depositados en el Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática, la Habana, Cuba. Novitates Caribaea 7: 117–125. doi: https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.v0i7.71 -- Show included taxa

Baptista, R.L.C. & Giupponi, A.P. de L. (2003). A new troglomorphic Charinus from Minas Gerais state, Brazil (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 7: 79–84. -- Show included taxa

Miranda, G.S. de & Giupponi, A.P. de L. (2011). A new synanthropic species of Charinus Simon, 1892 from Brazilian Amazonia and notes on the genus (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae). Zootaxa 2980: 61–68. ZooBank: 5EF4873A-6D1C-4D1B-975E-7ADF552B3A6F doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2980.1.5 -- Show included taxa

Miranda, G.S., Aharon, S., Gavish-Regev, E., Giupponi, A.P.L. & Wizen, G. (2016). A new species of Charinus Simon, 1892 (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae) from Israel and new records of C. ioanniticus (Kritscher, 1959). European Journal of Entomology 234: 1–17. ZooBank: 7A78A076-8848-4FFF-A3C2-B1FA3A94DC2F -- Show included taxa

Miranda, G.S., Milleri-Pinto, M., Gonçalves-Souza, T., Giupponi, A.P.L. & Scharff, N. (2016). A new species of Charinus Simon 1892 (Amblypygi, Charinidae) from Brazil, with notes on behavior. ZooKeys 621: 15–36. ZooBank: AA4734C1-E488-40B1-8C20-BC839A4EABF0 doi: 10.3897/zookeys.621.9980 -- Show included taxa

Trajano, E. & Bichuette, M.E. (2010). Diversity of Brazilian subterranean invertebrates, with a list of troglomorphic taxa. Subterranean Biology 7: 1–16. -- Show included taxa

Vasconcelos, A.C.O., Giupponi, A.P. de L. & Ferreira, R.L. (2013). A new species of Charinus Simon, 1892 from northeastern Brazil with comments on the potential distribution of the genus in Central and South Americas (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae). Zootaxa 3737: 488–500. ZooBank: 12850787-81C2-482E-9B3D-31852539FB2B doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3737.4.9 -- Show included taxa

Miranda, Gustavo S., Giupponi, A.P. de L., Prendini, L. & Scharff, N. (2021). Systematic revision of the pantropical whip spider family Charinidae Quintero, 1986 (Arachnida, Amblypygi). European Journal of Taxonomy 772: 1–409. ZooBank: 9B82A32F-0A07-47E3-8684-FED7C8EBF1E9 doi: 10.5852/ejt.2021.772.1505 -- Show included taxa

Miranda, G.S. de, Giupponi, A.P.L., Scharff, N. & Prendini, L. (2022). Phylogeny and biogeography of the pantropical whip spider family Charinidae (Arachnida: Amblypygi). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194(1): 136–180. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa101 -- Show included taxa

Torres-Contreras, R., Álvarez García, D.M. & Armas, L.F. de (2015). Una especie nueva de Charinus Simon, 1892 (Amblypygi: Charinidae) del Caribe Colombiano. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 27: 145-148. -- Show included taxa

Monte, B.G.O., do, Gallão, J.E., von Schimonsky, D.M. & Bichuette, M.E. (2015). New records of two endemic troglobitic and threatened arachnids (Amblypygi and Opiliones) from limestone caves of Minas Gerais state, southeast Brazil.. Biodiversity Data Journal 3(e5260): 1–13. doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e5260 -- Show included taxa

Souza, A.M. de & Ferreira, R.L. (2025). A small giant in the darkness: a new cave-dwelling Charinus (Amblypygi: Charontidae) from northeast Brazil. Zootaxa 5660(2): 228–242. ZooBank: 52ED4087-32EB-4235-8332-0A0B7A3D240F doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.2.4 -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2025-12-11 New taxonomic reference entry de Souza and Ferreira, 2025
2024-06-07 Species updated Old value
2024-04-07 Taxonomic reference update Monte, Gallão, Schimonsky and Bichuette, 2015
2024-03-15 Species updated Old value
2024-03-12 Taxonomic reference update Miranda, Giupponi, Prendini and Scharff, 2021
2024-03-12 Species updated Old value
2024-02-20 New taxonomic reference entry Monte, Gallão, Schimonsky and Bichuette, 2015
2024-02-20 New taxonomic reference entry Vasconcelos, Giupponi and Ferreira, 2013
2024-02-20 New taxonomic reference entry Torres-Contreras, Álvarez García and Armas, 2015
2024-02-20 Taxonomic reference update Miranda, Giupponi, Prendini and Scharff, 2021
2024-02-20 Taxonomic reference update Miranda, Milleri-Pinto, Gonçalves-Souza, Giupponi and Scharff, 2016
2024-02-20 Taxonomic reference update Miranda and Giupponi, 2011
2024-02-20 Taxonomic reference update Baptista and Giupponi, 2003
2024-02-20 Taxonomic reference update
2024-02-20 Species updated Old value
2022-10-02 New taxonomic reference entry Miranda, Giupponi, Scharff and Prendini, 2022
2022-03-25 New taxonomic reference entry Miranda, Giupponi, Prendini and Scharff, 2021
2022-03-25 Species updated Old value