The Second Camel Spider (Arachnida, Solifugae) from Burmese Amber

A review of Burmese amber arachnids

“…Two species are known from Cenozoic ambers, from the Dominican Republic and the Baltic (Poinar & Santiago-Blay 1989;Dunlop et al 2004, respectively). The single genus and species described from Burmese amber, Cushingia ellenbergeri Dunlop et al 2015 (Fig. 11 A, B) was not placed in a family, but it appears to have most characters in common with the living genus Dinorhax, which is the only extant species found in south-east Asia, and one of the few solifuges not associated with an arid environment (Dunlop et al 2015;Bartel et al 2016). Modern solifuges are associated Table 2.â€"Numbers of described species of arachnid orders recorded in Burmese amber compared to oilier major Cretaceous ambers with arachnids.…”

Redescription of the sole species of the enigmatic solifuge genus Dinorhax Simon, 1879 (Solifugae: Melanoblossiidae) in Southeast Asia

“…While most solifuges are restricted to arid ecosystems (Harvey 2003), Dinorhax rostrumpsittaci (Simon, 1877) is unusual for its occurrence in tropical Southeast Asia. In addition to D. rostrumpsittaci, a fossil species considered to be closely related to Dinorhax has recently been recorded from Cretaceous Myanmar amber (Dunlop et al 2015; Bartel et al 2016). Dinorhax rostrumpsittaci was originally described by Simon (1877) in the genus Rhax Hermann, 1804, possibly on the basis of a single specimen from Gilolo, which is now known as Halmahera, in Indonesia.…”