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Gluvia

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Gluvia dorsalis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Solifugae
Family: Daesiidae
Genus: Gluvia
C.L. Koch, 1842
Species:
G. dorsalis
Binomial name
Gluvia dorsalis
(Latreille, 1817)
Synonyms [1]

(Species)

  • Galeodes dorsalis Latreille, 1817

Gluvia is a genus of daesiid camel spiders, first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1842.[2] It only has two species, Gluvia dorsalis and Gluvia brunnea, the only two species of solifugid found in Portugal and Spain.[3][4][5][6] Gluvia dorsalis is reported to be a common species on the streets of Madrid.[7]

Gluvia dorsalis eating a cabbage bug (Eurydema oleracea)


References

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  1. ^ "Gluvia dorsalis (Latreille 1817)". Fauna Europaea. Archived from the original on June 22, 2011. Retrieved May 15, 2010.
  2. ^ Koch, Carl Ludwig (1842). "Systematische Uebersicht über die familie der Galeoden". Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 2: 350–356.
  3. ^ "Gluvia C.L. Koch, 1842". World Solifugae Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  4. ^ A. Curcó Masip; J. Estrada Bonell; A. Folch Albareda; S. Mañosa Rifé (1996). "Importància ecològica i interès biogeogràfic de la Timoneda d'Alfés, Lleida" (PDF) (in Catalan). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-26. Retrieved 2010-05-15.
  5. ^ "Eusimonia in Spain | Field Guide and Catalogues". museum.wa.gov.au. Retrieved 2022-12-25.
  6. ^ Pertegal, Cristian; Barranco, Pablo; De Mas, Eva; Moya-Laraño, Jordi (April 2024). "More Than 200 Years Later: Gluvia brunnea sp. nov. (Solifugae, Daesiidae), a Second Species of Camel Spider from the Iberian Peninsula". Insects. 15 (4): 284. doi:10.3390/insects15040284. ISSN 2075-4450. PMC 11050627. PMID 38667414.
  7. ^ J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson (1968). Spiders, scorpions, centipedes, and mites. International Series of Monographs in Chemical Engineering. Pergamon Press.