Purcellia illustrans

Familia: Pettalidae
Genera: Purcellia
Species:

Purcellia illustrans Hansen & Sørensen, 1904.

Type locality: South Africa, Western Cape, Table Mountain

Typus: Syntypes males ♂ & females ♀ ZMUC.

• Hansen & Sørensen, 1904: 106 [also mentioned on earlier pages]. Protonym.
• Purcellia peregrinator Lawrence, 1963:
  • Type locality: Mariepskop Forest, Pilgrims' Rest District, at 1400m.
    • Holotype: NMSA. male ♂. VIII.1960. legit N. Leleup.
• Purcellia transvaalica Lawrence, 1963: 276
  • Type locality: Hanglip Forest, Louis Trichardt, N. Transvaal
    • Holotype: NMSA. male ♂. VIII.1960. legit N. Leleup.

• Hansen, H.J. & Sørensen W.E. 1904. On two orders of Arachnida Opiliones, especially the suborder Cyphophthalmi, and Ricinulei, namely the family Cryptostemmatoidae. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge. 1–174, pls I-VII. BHL DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.13898 Reference page. 

• Lawrence, R.F. 1963. The Opiliones of the Transvaal. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 24: 275–304. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Kury, A.B., Mendes, A.C., Cardoso, L., Kury, M.S., Granado, A. d. A., Giribet, G., Cruz-López, J.A., Longhorn, S.J., Medrano, M.A. & de Oliveira, A.B.R. 2023. World Catalogue of Opiliones (WCO-Lite version 2.5.1 - June 2023. Digital resource at wcolite.com). In: O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D.R. Hernández Robles, C.A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, L. Vandepitte, D. Hobern, P. Schalk, R.E. DeWalt, M. Keping, J. Miller, T. Orrell, R. Aalbu, J. Abbott, R. Adlard, E.M. Adriaenssens, et al. Catalogue of Life Checklist (Version 2023-07-13). DOI: 10.48580/dfsy-4pt Reference page.  [accessed on January 20, 2024]

• BHL bibliography
• Purcellia illustrans – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Purcellia illustrans.
• ION

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