Solpugan.
/sɒlˈpjuːɡə/ 1. A venomous ant or spider mentioned by classical authors.
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. viii. xxix. 212 In Æthyopia..there is a great countrey..dispeopled sometime by Scorpions, and a Kind of Pismires called Solpugae.
1627 T. May tr. Lucan Pharsalia (new ed.) ix. 954 Who, small Solpuga, from thy hole would flee? Yet the three sisters giue their power to thee.
1718 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia ix. 1418 Or cou'd we the Salpuga's anger dread?
2. Entomology. A genus of tropical or semi-tropical spiders (belonging to the group Solpugidæ or Solifugæ); a weasel-spider.
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1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) I. iv. 126 The bite of one of the centipedes..is less tremendous than that of the Solpuga.
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xvi. 86 It seems, therefore, almost certain that the ancient and modern Solpuga are synonymous.
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