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Pseudoscorpions, also known as false scorpions or book scorpions, [1] are small, scorpion-like arachnids belonging to the order Pseudoscorpiones, also known as Pseudoscorpionida or Chelonethida. Pseudoscorpions are generally beneficial to humans because they prey on clothes moth larvae, carpet beetle larvae, booklice , ants , mites , and small ...
Pseudochiridiidae is a family of pseudoscorpions. It was described in 1923 by American arachnologist Joseph Conrad Chamberlin. [1] [2] Pseudochiridiids are relatively small pseudoscorpions. They are found in plant litter or beneath tree bark. The family was sometimes treated as a subfamily of the Cheiridiidae, but has since been reinstated.
Arachnids in the order Pseudoscorpionida (Pseudoscorpionides, Pseudoscorpiones) — the pseudoscorpions, sorted by superfamilies, families, or genera. Subcategories This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total.
Chthonius is a genus of pseudoscorpions, first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1843. [1] There are more than 100 species which are distributed from Europe to Iran, North Africa, Balearic Islands and the USA. There is one cosmopolitan species. There are also fossil species from the Eocene of Poland and the Russian Federation.
Neobisiidae is a family of pseudoscorpions distributed throughout Africa, the Americas and Eurasia and consist of 748 species in 34 genera. Some species live in caves while some are surface-dwelling. Some species live in caves while some are surface-dwelling.
Pseudotyrannochthonius typhlus is a species of pseudoscorpion in the Pseudotyrannochthoniidae family. It is endemic to Australia. It was described in 1970 by Australian zoologist Alan Dartnall. [1] [2]
Despite the fact that Colombia is a biodiversity hotspot — with over 500 types of mammals and 2,000 types of birds — relatively few pseudoscorpion species have been identified there.
Bochicidae is a family of pseudoscorpions distributed throughout the Americas from Texas and Mexico to South America, from the Antilles to Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil, as well as in Europe (Iberian Peninsula).