The whip spider collection ( Arachnida , Amblypygi ) held in the Natural History Museum Vienna , Austria

Zusammenfassung. Die Geißelspinnensammlung (Arachnida, Amblypygi) des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien, Österreich. Wir präsentieren Daten und Anmerkungen zur Geschichte und dem Inhalt der GeißelspinnenSammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien, Österreich. Die Sammlung umfasst 167 Individuen aus 4 Familien, 10 Gattungen und 27 Arten und beinhaltet Typen von vier Arten: Charinus ioanniticus (Kritscher, 1959), Dämon brachialis Weygoldt, 1999, Phrynus parvulus (Pocock, 1902) and Paraphrynus mexicanus (Bilimek, 1867). Die Angaben werden durch kurze Anmerkungen zu interessanten Objekten und früheren Kuratoren sowie einem Appendix mit der Liste der von Michael Seiter lebend gehaltenen Arten ergänzt.


Material and methods
The collection of Amblypygi (Arachnida) in the Natu- ral History Museum Vienna (NHMW) was revised between April and June 2011.Acquisition (Fig. 1) and inventory books, as well as datasheets, were screened.
A stereomicroscope (Wild/Leica M3Z) was used to investigate the specimens and photos were made with a Nikon DSU camera.The identity of specimens was verified in some cases and labelsif necessary -re- newed.The labels usually include the name of the species, the date of collection and the location.Fur- thermore, the name of the collector and/or donator, the name of the person who determined the specimen (sometimes also the date of determination), the acquisition number and the inventory number are given (see Fig. 2).In many cases the sex had not been determined.This lack of Information was tolerated to protect the structures of the genital operculum and surround-

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Fig. 1: Extract from the acquisition book with the record (1871.IV) of the oldest amblypygi.Numbers 5-7: Neophrynus spp.from "Central America".Neophrynus marginemaculatus has been transferred to Phrynus marginemaculatus C.L. Koch, 1840; Neophrynus palmatus has been transferred to Phrynus barbadensis (Pocock, 1 894); Neophrynus whitei has been transferred to Phrynus asperatipes Wood, 1863.ing areas.Most of the material is in good condition might have been influenced by tormalin at an earlier and can be used for scientific studies.All specimens, date, but no detailed Information is available about with a few exceptions that have been conserved dry, this.Nomenclature follows Harvey (2003Harvey ( , 2013)), since are stored in 70 % ethanol (denatured).Some material these works include the last complete listings. Arachn.
For whip spiders, relevant collectors/donators in former times were Tieodor Adensamer, Dominik Bilimek and Eduard Reimoser (see Pesta 1940), and more recently Helmut Sattmann.Most of the material originated from Sri Lanka (as Ceylon), Mexico, RLodes (Greece) and Oman.The speci- mens in the collection were formerly revised by Quintero in 1980 and Weygoldt in 1996 and 1998.Today, the whip spider collection holds a total of 167 specimens, including 27 species in 10 genera and 4 families (Tab.1).It includes types of 4 species.Supplementary Information about these species will be given below.

Type specimens
Charinidae Quintero, 1986 Charinus ioanniticus (Kritscher, 1959)  Tab.1: Species list of the Amblypygi collection at the NHMW.Nomenclature follows Harvey (2003, 2013)  ection.The one in the exhibition is labelled as "Coty- pus".This specimcn can't be examined without being destroyed.In any case, it sbould be mentioned that Weygoldt (2005) recorded only 7 females (he examined the specimens in the collection, but obviously not the one from the exhibition and another one).As no holotype was designated in the original descripti- on, all specimens have to be considered as syntypes.
Location: In the cave Cacahuamilpa in Mexico sitting on rocks, 14.1.1866,leg.Bilimek, det.Kraepelin.Inventory number: NHMW 1446, 2mm (ST )   Remarks: Another juvenile specimen was found several days later at the same locality (NHMW 1447).In the original description, however, only two adult males are mentioned.

Checklist of the collection
Tie complete species list of the Amblypygi collection at the NHMW is summarized in Tab. 1.

Conclusions
Tie whip spider collection of the NHMW -with 167 specimens from 27 speciesis considered to be a small one.Nonetheless, approx.15% of the valid species of the world are deposited in the museum, and the collection has types of 4 species.
Note that the whip spider Charinus ioanniticus made it -as "object No.We would also like to point out one fact that can cause taxonomic problems, using Trichodamon prin- ceps Mello-Leitäo, 1935 (NHMW 21842) as an example: The right basitibia of leg IV is not divided, but it is a principal character of this genus that it should be divided.All other morphological characters (two small tubercles above the cleaning organ on pedipalp distitarsus, ventral tibial spine I not bifid, etc.) are correct.This non-divided' part is caused by a for- merly broken leg which was regenerated over several molts.As this is not uncommon in Amblypygi, it is worth mentioning here.
Note that many of the species mentioned here are being captive bred and are available for scientific researchsee Appendix.Contact the first author for further Information.

Fig. 2 :
Fig.2: Typical labels in the Collection of arachnids at the NHMW using the labels of the four type specimens of Amblypygi.
Location: MOZAMBIQUE.Surroundings of Boroma, "Afrika: Zambese", from the late 19 th Century, leg.P. Menyhardt, don.Dr. Karl Brancsik, det.Peter Weygoldt Inventory number: NHMW 1440, 1<3 (= HT) Remarks: This specimen was initially determined (most likely by Kraepelin) as Dämon variegatus (Perty, 1834) (see in his overview of the amblypygid genus Phrynus in the Americas. 59", titled"European Premiere"-into the bookTop 100 of the NHMW (Ott et al. 2012).It States: "As until the middle of the 20 th Century there was no indication that this group of spiders existed at all in Europe.When arachnologist Erich Kritscher discovered this sample of a new species hiding in a crack in the wall at the Castle of the Knights of St. John in Lindos in 1959, it was truly sensational news".Interesting is also the comment on one (juvenile) specimen of Charinus ioanniticus (NHMW 1939) which was found dead in the spider net of Pholcus sp.("von Pholcus gefesselt").