A new species of fossil Phrynus Lamarck, 1801, from Dominican Republic amber (Amblypygi: Phrynidae) Author Dunlop, Jason A. Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany Author Bartel, Christian Natural History Museum Bamberg, Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns, Fleischstrasse 2, 96047 Bamberg, Germany text Zootaxa 2025 2025-01-03 5563 1 64 72 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5563.1.7 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5563.1.7 37f7c974-3d42-490a-ba3a-d446310c2a68 1175-5326 14596228 682A7967-5003-4F6B-8B32-9B3D7FC5A9AF Phrynus poinari nom. nov. Phrynus mexicana [ sic ] Poinar & Brown, 2004: 1882–1883 , figs 1–9, photo 696 (junior primary homonym of Phrynus mexicanus Bilimek, 1867 ). Phrynus mexicanus : Dunlop et al. 2015: 201–203; Opinion 2453 2020: 61–62. Etymology. The new species-group name is proposed in honour of Prof. George O. Poinar jr. for his extensive contributions towards the study of amber inclusions; especially in the Neotropics. Type series . Holotype in the Poinar amber collection (Accession no. A-10-264), maintained at Oregon State University, USA. Chiapas amber, Mexico . Miocene: Aquitanian . Remarks. This second amber Phrynus species was initially named Phrynus mexicana Poinar & Brown, 2004 , and comes from the probably slightly older ( Riquelme et al. 2024 ) Chiapas amber of Mexico .As noted by Dunlop et al. (2015), it should have been named ‘ mexicanus ’ which renders it a junior primary homonym of a Recent species Phrynus (now Paraphrynus ) mexicanus Bilimek, 1867 . An appeal by Dunlop et al. (2015) to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature to conserve Ph. mexicanus Poinar & Brown, 2004 , on the grounds of Bilimek’s species having been transferred to another genus was unsuccessful (Opinion 2453). The commission’s ruling suggested that the simplest solution would be a replacement name for the amber fossil. In this context, we take the opportunity to rename the Chiapas whip spider Phrynus poinari nom. nov. in recognition of George Poinar who initially described the species.