Palaeogrosphus copalensis (Lourenço, 1996)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Tityobuthus copalensis Lourenço, 1996 (basionym)
The new genus Palaeogrosphus was erected for Tityobuthus copalensis by (Lourenço, 2000).
Conservation Status
Missing or Extinct (Dunlop et al., 2023)
Last record: Holocene
Distribution
Province of Antsiranana (Diego-Suarez), Madagascar
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Lourenço, Wilson R. (1996). Premier cas connu d'un sub-fossile de scorpion dans le copal de Madagascar. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences Paris, Série IIa, Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes 323: 889-891.
Other references:
Dunlop, Jason A., Penney, David and Jekel, Denise. (2023). A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives. In: World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch, version 23.5, accessed on 28 Febrtuary 2025.
Lourenço, Wilson R. (2000). More about the Buthoidea of Madagascar, with special references to the genus Tityobuthus Pocock (Scorpiones, Buthidae). Revue suisse de Zoologie 107(4): 721-736. [Abstract]
http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=293720