Eremospina tolteca (Pocock, 1895)

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Gluvia tolteca

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:5f9e620b-b824-4a2f-b16d-7245c8fa0d3e


Genus type of Eremospina Roewer, 1934

Taxonomic references

Gluvia tolteca

Pocock, 1895a: 95 original description

Eremobates toltecus (Pocock):

Kraepelin, 1901a: 125, fig. 92
Pocock, 1902c: 61, plate 12 fig. 4
Muma, 1970a: 29 (designated as nomen dubium)
Muma, 1976: 18
Muma, 1987: 20
Harvey, 2003c: 244

Eremospina tolteca (Pocock):

Roewer, 1934: 565–566, figs 322e, 325b

Eremospina tolteca (Pocock):

Jones, Shikak, Gonzalez-Santillan and Cushing, 2026: pp.15-20, figs. 7O-P, 8H, 9F, 10H, 11K-L, 12F, 13F


Synonyms
Eremobates durangonus (Roewer, 1934) -- synonymised by Jones, Shikak, Gonzalez-Santillan and Cushing, 2026: pp. 15-20
LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:ecbfc019-3e05-4fd9-874c-20a08be08c98
Eremobates durangonus Roewer:
Roewer, 1934: 557, figs 323a, 324b original description
Not Eremobates durangonus
Muma, 1951: 78–79, figs 119–123
Muma, 1966a: 23–31, figs 1–4
Muma, 1966b: 346–350, fig. 2, plate XI
Muma, 1966c: 200, 201, 202, 204, 205, 206, 208, 212–213, fig. 1
Muma, 1966d: 252–255, 256, figs 1–6
Muma, 1966e: 234–241, figs 1–6
Muma, 1967b: 119, 120, 121
Cloudsley-Thompson, 1968: 120
Kaestner, 1968: 223–224, 225
Levi and Levi, 1968: 119, unnumbered fig
Muma, 1970a: 22, unnumbered figs on p. 22, 24
Muma, 1974a: 8
Muma, 1974c: 14–15
Muma, 1976: 17
Rowland and Reddell, 1976: 8
Cloudsley-Thompson, 1977: 65, 68
Muma, 1982: n/a, plates 99, 100
Brookhart and Muma, 1981: 297, figs 37–47
Muma, 1985: 3, fig. 15
Muma, 1987: 20
Muma and Muma, 1988: 18, figs 3–4
Canard and Stockmann, 1993: n/a, fig. 2
Vázquez-Rojas, 1995: 31
Vázquez Rojas, 1996e: 76
Punzo, 1998g: n/a, fig. 6–3
Weygoldt, 2002f: 485
Harvey, 2003c: 238
Brookhart and Brookhart, 2006: 307
Cushing, Graham, Prendini and Brookhart, 2015: 283, figs 2, 3
Starck, Belojević, Brozio and Mehnert, 2022: 59
Erdek, 2021: 1
Eremospina tolteca Pocock:
Jones, Shikak, Gonzalez-Santillan and Cushing, 2026: pp. 15-20, figs. 7O-P, 8H, 9F, 10H, 11K-L, 12F, 13F
Distribution
Distribution table

Realm: Transmexican Volcanic Belt

Mexico
US (Arizona, California)
Type locality: Mexico.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Mexico (IMPRECISE) 20 -100
Type repository
    N/A
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:E8CCFC9C-D48F-40DB-838A-11D054498091

References

Brookhart, J.O. & Brookhart, I.P. (2006). An annotated checklist of continental North American Solifugae with type depositories, abundance, and notes on their zoogeography. Journal of Arachnology 34: 299–330. doi: https://doi.org/10.1636/H04-02.1 -- Show included taxa

Brookhart, J.O. & Muma, M.H. (1981). The pallipes species-group of Eremobates Banks (Solpugida: Arachnida) in the United States. Florida Entomologist 64: 283–308. -- Show included taxa

Canard, A. & Stockmann, R. (1993). Comparative postembryonic development of arachnids. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 33: 461–468. -- Show included taxa

Cloudsley-Thompson, J.L. (1968). Spiders, scorpions, centipedes and mites. Pergamon Press, Oxford. [revised edition] -- Show included taxa

Cloudsley-Thompson, J.L. (1977). Adaptational biology of Solifugae (Solpugida). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 4: 61–71. -- Show included taxa

Cushing, P.E., Graham, M.R., Prendini, L. & Brookhart, J.O. (2015). A multilocus molecular phylogeny of the endemic North American camel spider family Eremobatidae (Arachnida: Solifugae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 92: 280–293. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2015.07.001 -- Show included taxa

Harvey, M.S. (2003c). Catalogue of the smaller arachnid orders of the world: Amblypygi, Uropygi, Schizomida, Palpigradi, Ricinulei and Solifugae. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne. -- Show included taxa

Kaestner, A. (1968). Arthropod relatives, Chelicerata, Myriapoda. In: Invertebrate zoology John Wiley & Sons, New York 2. -- Show included taxa

Kraepelin, K. (1901a). Palpigradi und Solifugae. Tierreich 12: i–xi, 1–159. -- Show included taxa

Levi, H.W. & Levi, L.R. (1968). Spiders and their kin. Golden Press, New York. -- Show included taxa

Muma, M.H. (1951). The arachnid order Solpugida in the United States. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 97: 35–141. -- Show included taxa

Muma, M.H. (1966a). Egg deposition and incubation for Eremobates durangonus with notes on the eggs of other species of Eremobatidae (Arachnida: Solpugida). Florida Entomologist 49: 23–31. -- Show included taxa

Muma, M.H. (1966b). Mating behavior in the solpugid genus Eremobates Banks. Animal Behaviour 14: 346–350. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0003-3472(66)80095-7 -- Show included taxa

Muma, M.H. (1966c). Feeding behavior of North American Solpugida (Arachnida). Florida Entomologist 49: 199–216. -- Show included taxa

Muma, M.H. (1966d). Burrowing habits of North American Solpugida (Arachnida). Psyche, Cambridge 73: 251–260. doi: https://doi.org/10.1155/1966/36510 -- Show included taxa

Muma, M.H. (1966e). The life cycle of Eremobates durangonus (Arachnida: Solpugida). Florida Entomologist 49: 233–242. -- Show included taxa

Muma, M.H. (1967b). Basic behavior of North American Solpugida. Florida Entomologist 50: 115–123. -- Show included taxa

Muma, M.H. (1970a). A synoptic review of North American, Central American, and West Indian Solpugida (Arthropoda: Arachnida). Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas 5: 1–62. -- Show included taxa

Muma, M.H. (1974a). Maturity and reproductive isolation of common solpugids in North American deserts. Journal of Arachnology 2: 5–10. -- Show included taxa

Muma, M.H. (1974c). An annotated list of solpugids (Arachnida) in New Mexico. Bulletin of the New Mexico Academy of Science 15(2): 13–16. -- Show included taxa

Muma, M.H. (1976). A review of solpugid families with an annotated list of western hemisphere solpugids. Publication of the Office of Research, Western New Mexico University, Silver City 2: 1–33. -- Show included taxa

Muma, M.H. (1982). Solpugida. In: Parker, S.P. (ed.) Synopsis and classification of living organisms McGraw-Hill, New York 2: 102–104. -- Show included taxa

Muma, M.H. (1985). A new, possibly diagnostic, character for Solpugida (Arachnida). Novitates Arthropodae 2(2): 1–5. -- Show included taxa

Muma, M.H. (1987). New species and records of Solpugida (Arachnida) from Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies. Southwest Offset, Silver City. -- Show included taxa

Muma, M.H. & Muma, K.E. (1988). The arachnid order Solpugida in the United States (Supplement 2, a biological review). Southwest Offset, Silver City. -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R.I. (1895a). Notes on some of the Solifugae contained in the collection of the British Museum, with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 16: 74–98. -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R.I. (1902c). Arachnida: Scorpiones, Pedipalpi, and Solifugae. In: Godman, F.D. and Salvin, O. (ed.) Biologia Centrali-Americana Taylor and Francis, London 3: 1–71. -- Show included taxa

Punzo, F. (1998g). The biology of camel-spiders (Arachnida, Solifugae). Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston. -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C.F. (1934). Solifugae, Palpigradi. In: Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs. 5: Arthropoda. IV: Arachnoidea Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft M.B.H., Leipzig 5(IV)(4)(4–5): 481–723. -- Show included taxa

Rowland, J.M. & Reddell, J.R. (1976). Annotated checklist of the arachnid fauna of Texas (excluding Acarida and Araneida). Occasional Papers of the Museum, Texas Technical University 38: 1–25. -- Show included taxa

Vázquez Rojas, I. (1996e). Solifugae. In: Llorente Bousquets, J.E., García Aldrete, A.N. and González Soriano, E. (ed.) Biodiversidad, taxonomía y biogeografía de artrópodos de México: hacia una síntesis de su conocimiento Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, D.F.: 75–78. -- Show included taxa

Vázquez-Rojas, I. (1995). Los aracnidos de Mexico parte 1: Ricinulei, Amblypygi, Solifugae, Palpigradi, Schizomida, Uropygi. Dugesiana 2: 15–37. -- Show included taxa

Weygoldt, P. (2002f). Chelicerata, Spinnentiere. In: Westheide, W. and Rieger, R. (ed.) Spezielle Zoologie Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg, Berlin 1: Einzeller und Wirbellose Tiere: 449–497. -- Show included taxa

Erdek, M. (2021). An evaluation on the last ecdysis in Galeodids (Galeodidae, Solifugae, Arachnida). Communications Biology 5(1): 90-93. -- Show included taxa

Starck, J.M., Belojević, J., Brozio, J. & Mehnert, L. (2022). Comparative anatomy of the rostrosoma of Solifugae, Pseudoscorpiones and Acari. Zoomorphology 141: 57-80. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00435-021-00551-3 -- Show included taxa

Jones, R.R., Shikak, G., Gonzalez-Santillan, E. & Cushing, P.E. (2026). The resurrection and redefinition of Roewer’s Eremospina with description of three new species of Mexican-distributed solifuges (Solifugae: Eremobatidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 203(3). doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlag022 -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2026-03-15 Species synonymy Jones, Shikak, Gonzalez-Santillan and Cushing, 2026
2026-03-13 Taxonomic reference update Jones, Shikak, Gonzalez-Santillan and Cushing, 2026
2026-03-12 New taxonomic reference entry Jones, Shikak, Gonzalez-Santillan and Cushing, 2026
2026-03-12 Species updated Old value
2026-03-12 Species updated Old value
2025-05-09 Species updated Old value