Phoneyusa bidentata Pocock, 1899

♀ Female described ♂ Male described

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Original Description

Pocock, R. I. (1899). On the scorpions, pedipalps and spiders from tropical West-Africa, represented in the collection of the British Museum. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1899: 833-885.

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Distribution

WestCentral Africa

Type Locality: Benito River

Adult Male Activity

Collection months of 1 adult male specimen record, against the rainfall where they live

Adult males collected

Mean monthly rainfall and temperature 2001–2020 near the type locality, Benito River. MERRA-2 via NASA POWER, for a grid cell averaging 641 m. Wet and dry seasons, from the rainfall at the locality itself.

Specimen Records (8)

? ♂ Type Congo

Umangi,

November 1896 · col. E. Wilverth

BMNH 1898-7-6-8 ♂ Type

Benito River, Congo

Type of P.umangiana Strand

? ♀ Type Congo

Banzyville

col. Hermans

1898-5-5-6-7

Ubangi

col. G.L. Bates

No. 9-11-1897

Umangi, Ubangi

RG 14399

Budsala, Ubangi

RG 14399 ♀

Gemena, Ubangi

? ♀ Congo

Akenge, Congp

Taxonomic History

1899
Phoneyusa bidentata Pocock, 1899

Bibliography (1)

Pocock, R. I. (1899). On the scorpions, pedipalps and spiders from tropical West-Africa, represented in the collection of the British Museum. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1899: 833-885.

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