Type specimens of Arachnida and
Myriapoda
deposited in Museu Nacional
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OUR COLLECTION (status in 2010):
The Arachnology section of the National Museum in Rio holds an excellent collection of Arachnida, Myriapoda and Onychophora. The purchase of the Helia Soares Private Collection in 2001 turned it in the most important Latin American arachnological collection.
What we already have in electronic media:
Taxon | Number of specimens in 2010 |
Number of type specimens in 2010 | Catalogue |
Amblypygi | 201 |
57 |
in prep. |
Araneae | 13,743 |
1,436 |
2010 |
Chilopoda | 1,053 |
16 |
2000 |
Diplopoda | 2,460 |
22 |
none |
Onychophora | 835 |
7 |
none |
Opiliones | 30,852 |
2,785 |
in prep. |
Pseudoscorpiones | 228 |
95 |
1999 |
Scorpiones | 1,848 |
81 |
1999 |
Thelyphonida | 40 |
4 |
in prep. |
Backlog collection is currently being catalogued and identified.
Our type catalogues issued so far:
CHAGAS-JUNIOR, A. 2000. A catalogue of the type specimens of Scolopendromorpha in the Brazilian myriapodological collections (Chilopoda, Arthropoda). Fragmenta Faunistica, Warszawa, 43 Suppl.: 259-271.
Kury, A.B. & Nogueira, André L.C., 1999. Annotated check list of type specimens of Arachnida in the Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, I. Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones and Solifugae. Publicações Avulsas do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, 77: 1-19. [Issued: January 1999]
Silva-Moreira, T., Baptista, R.L.C., Kury, A.B., Giupponi, A.P.L., Buckup, E.E. & Brescovit, A.D. (2010) Annotated check list of Arachnida type specimens deposited in the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. II - Araneae. Zootaxa, 2588: 1-91. [Issued 31 Aug 2010]Selected parts of Kury & Nogueira 1999 are transcribed here:
Arachnida Scorpiones < back to top
Family Bothriuridae Simon, 1880
Original name of species |
Current name or synonymy |
Relevant literature |
Status of material |
Brachistosternus castroi M-L, 1941 | M-L, 1941: 231, fig 21. | MNRJ xxx - 1 male syntype. Available | |
Bothriurus buecherli San Martín, 1963 | San Martín, 1963: 400, figs 1-4. | MNRJ 7039 - 1 female
paratype MNRJ 7040 - 1 male paratype Available. |
|
Family Buthidae Simon, 1879
Original name of species |
Current name or synonymy |
Relevant literature |
Status of material |
Family Chactidae Pocock, 1893
Original name of species |
Current name or synonymy |
Relevant literature |
Status of material |
Family Ischnuridae Simon, 1879
Original name of species |
Current name or synonymy |
Relevant literature |
Status of material |
Arachnida Pseudoscorpiones < back to top
Family Chernetidae Menge, 1855
Original name of species |
Current name or synonymy |
Relevant literature |
Status of material |
Family Geogarypidae Chamberlin, 1930
Original name of species |
Current name or synonymy |
Relevant literature |
Status of material |
Family Olpiidae Banks, 1895
Original name of species |
Current name or synonymy |
Relevant literature |
Status of material |
Family Tridentochthoniidae Balzan, 1892
Original name of species |
Current name or synonymy |
Relevant literature |
Status of material |
Family Withiidae Chamberlin, 1931
Original name of species |
Current name or synonymy |
Relevant literature |
Status of material |
Arachnida Solifugae < back to top
Family Ammotrechidae Roewer, 1934
Original name of species |
Current name or synonymy |
Relevant literature |
Status of material |
Family Mummuciidae Roewer, 1934
Original name of species |
Current name or synonymy |
Relevant literature |
Status of material |
Chilopoda Scolopendromorpha < back to top
Family Cryptopidae Kohlrausch, 1881
Original name of species |
Current name or synonymy |
Relevant literature |
Status of material |
Scolopocryptops miersii puruensis Bücherl, 1941a | Dinocryptops miersii puruensis |
unsexed holotype MNRJ 49 - Available 4 unsexed paratypes MNRJ 27 - not located |
Family Newportiidae Pocock, 1896
Original name of species |
Current name or synonymy |
Relevant literature |
Status of material |
Newportia diagramma aureana Bücherl, 1941a | unsexed holotype MNRJ 144 - nl | ||
Newportia ernsti fossulata Bücherl, 1941a | unsexed holotype MNRJ 146 - nl | ||
Newportia maxima Bücherl, 1941a | unsexed holotype MNRJ 48 - nl |
Family Scolopendridae Newport, 1844
Original name of species |
Current name or synonymy |
Relevant literature |
Status of material |
Cormocephalus impressus unimarginatus Bücherl, 1941a | unsexed holotype MNRJ 141 - nl | ||
Rhoda calcarata calcarata Bücherl, 1941a | Rhoda calcarata carvalhoi Bücherl, 1943 | unsexed paratypes MNRJ 28, 37, 50, 82, 85 - nl | |
Scolopendra angulata angulata Bücherl, 1941a | Scolopendra angulata moojeni Bücherl, 1943 | unsexed paratypes MNRJ 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 19 - nl |
Annotated check list of type specimens of Arachnida in the Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, I. Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones and Solifugae. Introduction
This paper is part
of a series intended to treat comprehensively the fate of the
type material of species of Arachnida deposited in the Museu
Nacional, - Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The Museu Real (Royal Museum) of Rio de Janeiro was founded in
1818. In 1922 it has been renamed Museu Nacional (National Museum).
The collection of the MNRJ started to be formed thanks to the
effort of the traveling naturalists (e. g., Fritz Müller, Emílio
Goeldi), a position that was extinguished in 1915, and later by
the collections of the naturalists. Among the latter, those who
contributed with arachnological material may be cited Eduardo May
(entered MNRJ in 1921), Mário Rosa (entered 1922), Herbert Berla
(entered 1931), Roger Arlé (entered 1935) and Oton Leonardos (entered
1939).
The arachnologist Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão (* 17 July
1886 - 14 Dec. 1948) published for more than thirty years
and contributed almost 200 papers on Arachnida, describing
hundreds of species, of which most types were deposited in MNRJ.
Mello-Leitão had a position as professor in the Museu Nacional
from April 1931 to December 1937. The private collection of Mello-Leitão,
composed of 2341 specimens, has been purchased by the Museu
Nacional in December 1929 (Fig 1). Mello-Leitão also visited
many other institutions and described species based on their
material. Type material of species described by Mello-Leitão is
in Instituto Butantan (IBSP); Museo Argentino de Ciencias
Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (MACN); Museo de La Plata (MLP);
Museu de História Natural Capão da Imbuia (MHCI); Museu de
Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo (MZSP) and Muséum National
d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN).
The aim of the appendix 1 is to list type material of Mello-Leitão
which repository has not been cited by the original description
and which should be or could be in the Museu Nacional, but which
is in other institutions or lost.
Other arachnologists deposited type material in the MNRJ after
Mello-Leitão: Wolfgang Bücherl, Tomas Cekalovic, José L. A.
Feio, Wilson Lourenço and Pablo San Martín.
Almost one fourth of the type specimens has been lost during the
last decades (Tab. 1), but now, with permanent curatorship,
losses are expected to drop to naught and with the caption of new
types, it is expected to return to its former dominant role in
the neotropical arachnological collections. In this series, an
attempt has been made to define by a literature survey which
species could have type material in MNRJ. The next step has been
a great effort to locate this material among unsorted, moldy and
broken vials.
In the following lists, the species have been arranged in
alphabetical order within each family. All localities have been
checked to give at least an approximate location by state or
province, including recent political changes (e. g., Tocantins,
Mato Grosso do Sul). Material can be either AVAILABLE (meaning
that it is here, or under loan, checked with the borrower), NOT
LOCATED (meaning is it lost, eventually destroyed) or DESTROYED (when
it is sure that the material has been rotten).
Details of type data follow model below: Genus species Author,
year, original reference [synonymy], relevant additional
literature: page, figures, number of specimens, status of type,
MNRJ (collection number), country, state. locality, "transcription
of labels". condition.
Annotated check list of type specimens of Arachnida in the Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, I. Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones and Solifugae. References
BEIER, M. 1959. Zur
Kenntnis der Pseudoscorpioniden Fauna des Andengebietes. Beiträge
zur Neotropischen Fauna, Jena, 1: 185-228.
BÜCHERL, W. 1959a. Escorpiões e escorpionismo no Brasil VI.
Sinonímia de Bothriurus melloleitaoi Prado 1934, da fêmea de
Bothriurus sigatus [sic] Pocock 1893 com Bothriurus bonariensis
asper (Pocock) 1893 e de Bothriurus semiellypticus Prado 1934 com
Bothriurus b. bonariensis (Koch) 1842. Mem. Inst. Butantan, São
Paulo, 28: 1-10.
BÜCHERL, W. 1959b. Escorpiões e escorpionismo no Brasil VII.
Sinonímia de Bothriurus fragilis M. L. 1934 e B. zeugma M. L.
1945 com B. rochai M. L. 1932, com o nome definitivo de
Bothriurus coriaceus rochai (Mello-Leitão) 1932. Mem. Inst.
Butantan, São Paulo, 28: 11-18.
BÜCHERL, W. 1959b. Escorpiões e escorpionismo no Brasil VIII.
Revisão das espécies do gênero Bothriurus descritas da
Argentina. Mem. Inst. Butantan, São Paulo, 28: 19-44.
BÜCHERL, W. 1963. Escorpiões e escorpionismo no Brasil. XI.
Revisão dos Botriurídeos da coleção escorpiônica do Museu
Nacional do Rio de Janeiro. Mem. Inst. Butantan, São Paulo, 30:
187-206.
CEKALOVIC K., T., 1968. Phoniocercus sanmartini, nueva especie de
Bothriuridae de Chile. (Scorpionida - Bothriuridae). Boln. Soc.
Biol. Concepción., Concepción, 40: 63-79.
CEKALOVIC K., T., 1974. Bothriurus dumayi n. sp. de escorpión
chileno (Scorpiones, Bothriuridae). Boln. Soc. Biol. Concepción.,
Concepción, 48: 209-216.
FEIO, J. L. A., 1941. Sôbre um curioso pseudoescorpião
Geogarypus (Geogarypus) itapemirinensis sp. n. (Garypidae:
Neobisiinea). Papéis Dep. Zool. Est. S. Paulo, São Paulo, 1(26):
241-244.
FEIO, J. L. A., 1944. Victorwithius monoplacophorus n. gen., n.
sp. da subfamília Withiinae Chamberlin, 1931. ). Bolm Mus. nac.
Rio de J. (N.S. Zool.), Rio de Janeiro, 28: 1-7.
FEIO, J. L. A., 1945. Novos pseudoscorpiões da Região
Neotropical (com a descrição de uma subfamília, dois gêneros
e sete espécies). ). Bolm Mus. nac. Rio de J. (N.S. Zool.), Rio
de Janeiro, 44: 1-47.
FEIO, J. L. A., 1946. Sôbre o gênero Pycnochernes Beier, 1932,
com a descrição de P. guarany n. sp. do Paraguai. Livro de
homenagem a R. F. d'Almeida, São Paulo, 15: 167-176.
FEIO, J. L. A., 1960. Consideraciones sobre Chernetinae con la
descripción de Maxchernes birabeni género y especie nuevos (Arachnida,
Pseudoscorpiones). Neotropica, La Plata, 5(18): 71-82.
FLORES DA CUNHA, M. 1961. Contribuição para a sistemática de
Scorpiones (fam. Bothriuridae) - Bothriurus araguayae (Vellard)
1934 como espécie distinta e sinonímia de B. magalhaensi Mello-Leitão
1937 com a referida espécie. Avulso Centro. Est. Zool., Fac. Nac.
Filos., Rio de Janeiro, 11: 1-9.
FRANCKE, O. F., 1976. Two emendations to Stahnke's (1974)
Vaejovidae revision (Scorpionida, Vaejovidae). J. Arachnol.,
Indianapolis, 4(2): 125-135.
GALIANO, M.E. & E.A. MAURY, 1979. Lista de los ejemplares
tipicos de "Arachnida" (Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones
y Solifugae) depositados en el Museo Argentino de Ciencias
Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia". Revta Mus. Argent.
Cienc. Nat. "Bernardino Rivadavia", Entomol., Buenos
Aires, 5(11): 301-334.
HARVEY, M.S., 1991. Catalogue of the Pseudoscorpionida.
Manchester University Press: Manchester.
LOURENÇO, W.R., 1981. Sur la systematique des scorpions
appartenant au complexe Tityus stigmurus (Thorell, 1877) (Buthidae).
Rev. brasil. Biol., Rio de Janeiro, 41(2): 351-362.
LOURENÇO, W.R., 1982. Revision du genre Ananteris Thorell, 1891
(Scorpiones, Buthidae) et description de six especes nouvelles.
Bull. Mus. Natn. Hist. Nat., Paris, 4e ser., Paris, 4(a1-2): 119-151.
LOURENÇO, W.R., 1987. Consideraçoes sistemáticas sobre Tityus
magnimanus Pocock, 1897 (Scorpiones, Buthidae) e especies
associadas. Rev. brasil. Biol., Rio de Janeiro, 47(4): 565-572.
LOURENÇO, W.R., 1995. Considerations sur la biogeographie des
especes appartenant au genre Teuthraustes Simon, 1878 (Chelicerata,
Scorpiones, Chactidae). Revue Arachnol., Avignon, 10(11): 201-206.
LOURENÇO, W.R., 1997. A propos de deux nouvelles espèces de
Tityus Koch du Brésil (Scorpiones, Buthidae). Revue Arachnol.,
Avignon, 12(5): 53-59.
LOURENÇO, W.R. & V.R.D.VON EICKSTEDT, 1987. Contribuição
ao conhecimento taxonômico dos escorpiões associados ao grupo
Tityus melanostictus Pocock, 1893 (Scorpiones, Buthidae). Mem.
Inst. Butantan, São Paulo, 49(3): 87-95.
LOURENÇO, W.R. & M.VACHON, 1981. Complements a la
description d'Acanthothraustes brasiliensis (Mello-Leitao, 1931
(= Teuthraustes brasilianus Mello-Leitao, 1931), synonyme
d'Euscorpius flavicaudis (geer, 1778) (Scorpiones, Chactidae). J.
Arachnol., Indianapolis, 9(2): 223-228.
MAHNERT, V. 1979. Pseudoskorpione (Arachnida) aus dem Amazonas
Gebiet (Brasilien). Revue Suisse Zool., Geneve, 86: 719-810.
MAHNERT, V. 1985. Weitere Pseudoskorpione (Arachnida) aus dem
zentralen Amazonasgebiet (Brasilien). Amazoniana, Plön, 9: 215-241.
MAURY, E. A., 1975. Escorpiones y escorpionismo en el Peru. V.
Orobothriurus, un nuevo genero de escorpiones altoandino (Bothriuridae).
Rev. Peruana Entomol., Lima, 18(1) : 14-25.
MAURY, E. A., 1977. Comentarios sobre dos especies de escorpiones
del genero Urophonius (Bothriuridae). Rev. Mus. Arg. Cien. Nat.,
Buenos Aires, 5(7) : 143-160.
MAURY, E. A., 1978. Escorpiofauna patagónica. II. Urophonius
granulatus Pocock, 1898 (Bothriuridae). Physis Secc. C., Buenos
Aires, 37(94): 57-68.
MAURY, E. A., 1981. Estudio sobre el genero "Bothriurus"
(Scorpiones, Bothriuridae). 1. Catalogo y comentarios sobre el
material tipico. Revta Mus. Argent. Cien. nat., Buenos Aires, 4(4):
95-111.
MAURY, E. A., 1982. Dos Bothriurus del nordeste brasileño (Scorpiones,
Bothriuridae). Revta Soc. ent. Argent., Buenos Aires, 41(1-4):
253-265.
MELLO-LEITÃO, C. F. de, 1924. A new south-american solpugid.
Revta chilena Hist. nat., Concepción, 28: 140-143.
MELLO-LEITÃO, C. F. de, 1925. Dois interessantes arachnideos
myrmecophilos. Physis, Buenos Aires, 8(29): 228-237.
MELLO-LEITÃO, C. F. de, 1931a. Dois novos escorpiões do Brasil.
Bolm. Mus. Nac. Rio de J., Rio de Janeiro, 7: 283-288 + 1 pl.
MELLO-LEITÃO, C. F. de, 1931b. Notas sobre o gênero Tityus Koch.
An. Acad. bras. Cienc., Rio de Janeiro, 3: 119-145.
MELLO-LEITÃO, C. F. de, 1931c. Bothriuridae Sul-Americanos.
Archos Mus. Nac. Rio de J., Rio de Janeiro, 33: 82-104.
MELLO-LEITÃO, C. F. de, 1932. Notas sobre escorpiões Sul-Americanos.
Archos Mus. nac. Rio de J., Rio de Janeiro, 34: 9-46.
MELLO-LEITÃO, C. F. de, 1933. Duas novas espécies de Tityus do
Brasil. An. Acad. bras. Cienc., Rio de Janeiro, 5: 201-203.
MELLO-LEITÃO, C. F. de, 1934a. Novo escorpião brasileiro do gênero
Urophonius. An. Acad. bras. Cienc., Rio de Janeiro, 6: 13-15.
MELLO-LEITÃO, C. F. de, 1934b. A propósito de um novo Vejovida
do Brasil. An. Acad. bras. Cienc., Rio de Janeiro, 6: 75-82.
MELLO-LEITÃO, C. F. de, 1934c. Um novo Bothriurus do nordeste do
Brasil. An. Acad. bras. Cienc., Rio de Janeiro, 6: 193-195.
MELLO-LEITÃO, C. F. de, 1934d. Estudo monographico dos escorpiões
da República Argentina. VIII Reun. Soc. Argent. Patol. Reg., Rio
de Janeiro, 51: 1-97.
MELLO-LEITÃO, C. F. de, 1935. On two Brazilian scorpions. Revta
chil. Hist. nat., Concepción, 39: 90-93.
MELLO-LEITÃO, C. F. de, 1936. La distribution des arachnides et
son importance pour la zoogéographie sud-américaine. Compt. R.
XII Congr. Int. Zool., Paris, 2: 1209-1216.
MELLO-LEITÃO, C. F. de, 1937a. Dois escorpiões sul-americanos.
An. Acad. bras. Cienc., Rio de Janeiro, 9: 99-104.
MELLO-LEITÃO, C. F. de, 1937b. Novo pseudoscorpião do Brasil.
Ann. Acad. bras. Cienc., Rio de Janeiro, 9(3): 269-270.
MELLO-LEITÃO, C. F. de, 1937c. Notes sur quelques solifuges de
l'Amérique du Sud. Annais Acad. bras. Cienc., Rio de Janeiro, 9(1):
83-86, 1 pl.
MELLO-LEITÃO, C. F. de, 1938a. Notas sobre alacranes argentinos.
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MELLO-LEITÃO, C. F. de, 1938b. Solifugos de Argentina. An. Mus.
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MELLO-LEITÃO, C. F. de, 1939a. Una nueva especie de alacran del
género Chactas. Physis, Buenos Aires, 18: 147-148
MELLO-LEITÃO, C. F. de, 1939b. Revisão do gênero Tityus.
Physis, Buenos Aires, 18: 57-75.
MELLO-LEITÃO, C. F. de, 1939c. Les arachnides et la zoogéographie
de l'Argentine. Physis, 18: 601-630.
MELLO-LEITÃO, C. F. de, 1939d. Pseudoscorpionidos de Argentina.
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MELLO-LEITÃO, C. F. de, 1940a. Um pedipalpo e dois escorpiões
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MELLO-LEITÃO, C. F. de, 1940b. Un solífugo da Argentina e
alguns opiliões da Colômbia. Annais Acad. bras. Cienc., Rio de
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MELLO-LEITÃO, C. F. de, 1941. Arácnidos de Copiapó (Atacama) y
Casablanca. Revta chil. Hist. nat., Concepción, 44: 231-235.
MELLO-LEITÃO, C. F. de, 1942. Novos Solifugos do Chile e do
Mexico. Annais Acad. bras. Cienc., Rio de Janeiro, 14(4): 305-314.
MELLO-LEITÃO, C. F. de, 1943. Arácnidos recogidos en el Ecuador
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MELLO-LEITÃO, C. F. de, 1945. Escorpiões sul-americanos. Archos
Mus. nac. Rio de J., Rio de Janeiro, 40: 5-468.
MELLO-LEITÃO, C. F. de, 1947. Tres novas especies de Bothriurus
do Paraná e Santa Catarina. Bolm Mus. nac. Rio de J. (N.S. Zool.),
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C. F. de & J. A. Feio. Notas sobre pequena colecção de
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SAN MARTÍN, P. R., 1965b. Escorpiofauna uruguaya. II. Bothriurus
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