Citations:scorpion spider

Phalangium (harvestman) (in Opiliones)

• 1807, Jacob Reineggs, Freiherr Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein, Charles Wilkinson, A General, Historical, and Topographical Description of Mount Caucasus, page 146:

  Of the three species of insects, the scorpion-spider (phalangium araneoides) is doubtless the most dangerous.

• 1830, The Polar star, being a continuation of 'The Extractor', page 232:

  The most dangerous insect found in Georgia is the Phalangium araneoides of Linnaeus, or scorpion-spider.

• See Phalangium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Galeodes (in Solifugae, sun spiders)

• 1859, “Extracts from the Letters of the late Dr. Broomfield”, in The Zoologist, page 6399:

  The Scorpion Spider or Galleode.—At the sugar-works at Ernout, I saw one living and several dead specimens of the terrific scorpion spider or galleode of Egypt and the adjacent countries

• 1885, Edward Balfour, The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, page 551:

  Species of the genus Galeodes, or scorpion spiders, occur in Central Asia, Tartary, and in the Himalaya. The scorpion spiders common on the steppes, are the Galeodes aranoides (Phalangium aranoides of Pallas).

• Galeodes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Phrynus (in Amblypygi, tailless whip scorpions)

• 1887, J. J. Quelch, “A visit to the British Guiana Museum”, in Timehri: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana, page 242:

  A fine specimen of the scorpion-spider (Phrynus) with the long setaceous modified first pair of legs is also shewn

Pedipalpida (now in Uropygi (vinegaroons, whip scorpions) and Amblypygi)

• 1904, Frederick Converse Beach, Forrest Morgan, George Edwin Rines, et al., editors, The Encyclopedia Americana:

  Scorpion-spider, or False Spider, a small spider-like arthropod allied to the scorpion, various species of which constitute the order Pedipalpida

Paragaleodes scalaris (in Solifugae)

• 1956, Victor Howells, A naturalist in Palestine, page 50:

  On the top of the stone was a large female scorpion spider (Paragaleodes scalaris), who had lain in wait for the black scorpion to come out on to the sand.

tailless whip-tailed scorpion (Amblypygi)

• 1961, Herbert Ludwig Stahnke, Biotic Principles, page 200:

  Closely related to the vinegaroons is the scorpion spider. It is frequently referred to as a tailless whip-tailed scorpion.

African

• 1949, African Wild Life, volumes 3-5, page 259:

  In every case observed, both contestants have finally perished, but I believe that there is a spider called a Scorpion spider

Derived terms

• scorpion spider crab
• scorpion spider conch
• whip scorpion spider