i saw nesh asking about CA whipspiders and it picqued my curiousity
i will do research here
as an aside, this is kind of funny, actually. i have been giving serious consideration to getting a colony of the FL Phrynus sp.... i had read a really cool PDF about how tolerant of each other they are, much more so than Damon diadematus (sp?)
Chamela, Mexico
Nayarit Mexico
near itza temple, mexico
Chacala, Mexico
north of manzanillo, in mexico <-- check that one out. AWESOME looking
kitchen sink on Mexico's Pacific coast just north of Manzanillo <-- ditto
tropical coast of Oaxaca, Mexico http://whatsthatbug.com/scorps.html
^ Peoria, Arizona
vicinity of Piestewa Peak in Phoenix, Arizona
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Unlike the above species which is found throughout the Southern US, this species is only from South Texas to Mexico. Adults are near impossible to catch as they live in desert areas on rock faces and as soon as they hide they cannot be caught without the use of dynamite. Also, they are very very fast. This Paraphrynus sp. is 25% larger than the above species and the legs and pedipalps are larger in comparison to the body.
Coddington, J. A., S. F. Larcher, and J. C. Cokendolpher, 1990. The systematic status of Arachnida, exclusive of Acarina, in North America North of Mexico (Arachnida: Amblypygi, Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpiones, Ricinulei, Schizomida, Scorpiones, Solifugae, Uropygi).
http://pw1.netcom.com/~wsavary/solpugid.html
MULLINEX C. (1975) Revision of Paraphrynus Moreno (Amblypigida: Phrynidae) for North America and the Antilles. Occ. Papers California Acad. Sci., 116:1-80.
QUINTERO D. (1981) The amblypigid genus Phrynus in the Americas (Amblypygi, Phrynidae). J. Arachnol., 9:117-166.
not helpful to us, but looks like it would be a cool read
BAERT L., MAELFAIT J.P. & DESENDER K. (1995) Distribution of the arachnid species of the orders Scorpiones, Solifugae, Amblypygi, Schizomida, Opiliones and Pseudoscorpiones in Galápagos. Bull. Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belgique, Entomol., 65:5-19.
http://www.bio-nica.info/Ento/Arthro%5CBIBLIOGRAFIA%20ARTHROPODA.htm
cacoseraph
i'm starting to get the feeling we might not have them in CA