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Until recently I was a resident in Northern Minnesota. While living there, I came across a species of arachnid that I was unfamiliar with. They were similiar in appearance to the tailless whip scorpion. Black in color and about the size of a #2 pencil eraser. According to the information contained under "Uropgygid", this is not possible. Minnesota has never been described as Tropical or Sub-Tropical. I would appreciate any information that anyone might be able to provide. My son is doing a science project for school about these creatures. Thankyou for your attention. Please contact me at alyxpsidney@hotmail.com

Telson

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We should avoid using the term "telson" referring to the flagellum or to the caudal spine, specially with a nonsense link to the telson of Crustacea, which makes part of the tail fan as has nothing to do with this structure in Chelicerata. Vae victis 15:49, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pedipalpida

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According to http://bugguide.net/node/view/29752, the order name should be Pedipalpida. I was unable to find it in ITIS but they don't always seem to have everything in there anyway. howcheng {chat} 18:06, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind, they've just got old data. howcheng {chat} 18:19, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Add IPA

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Add IPA for "uropygid" etc. or else how do you expect one to pronounce it? Jidanni 18:28, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How do they do it?

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Males secrete a sperm sac, which is transferred to the female.

Say how. By parcel post? Jidanni 19:21, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In particular, what was his head doing in her butt in my Taiwan observation? Jidanni 03:57, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've now added a fuller explanation of the mating behaviour (better late than never!). Peter coxhead (talk) 10:54, 1 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Vinegaroons or vinegarroons?

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A single spelling should be settled on.--Wetman (talk) 07:02, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nashville

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The assertion that the insect habitat specifically includes "near downtown Nashville" needs to have an authoritative citation. Kathon (talk) 19:52, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Acid?

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Is this acetic, caprylic, formic or some mixture? The article currently contradicts itself. Andy Dingley (talk) 19:23, 22 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Plagiarism

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I have removed a paragraph based on the Harvey (2002) source. Although the source was referenced, the paragraph was virtually word-for-word, and so violates WP:PLAGIARISM. Maybe someone will have time to re-write it. Peter coxhead (talk) 10:42, 1 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

ENGVAR

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An IP editor recently changed "behaviour" to "behavior" but the former spelling has been present since at least 2006. The spelling system which needs least changes to make it consistent, is {{British English Oxford spelling}}, so I will mark the article as using this ENGVAR, and fix the one word that needs changing ("molt" to "moult"). Peter coxhead (talk) 16:55, 26 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Is spelling simply based on the author's preference?? I see British spellings so much that it is easy to forget that this is not Britannica.
Actually the Encyclopedia Britannica is now US owned and operated... See MOS:RETAIN, which applies here since there's no obvious national tie. Peter coxhead (talk) 19:41, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Classification: Thelyphonida vs. Uropygi

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It seems that several recent sources treat Uropygi as a separate order from Schizomida, while retaining the higher clade Thelyphonida that includes both orders. Suggest changing order to Uropygi from Thelyphonida. Please see references here and here — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jesseseeem (talkcontribs) 14:10, 27 February 2019 (UTC) --Jesseseeem (talk) 05:56, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Move proposal

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Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Arthropods#Usage of names Uropygi and Thelyphonida for a move proposal and discussion. Peter coxhead (talk) 12:30, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]