Galapagos Species Database

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Paraliochthonius rupicola Mahnert, 2014

Pseudoscorpión, Pseudoscorpion

Diagnosis: Carapace with 4 comeate eyes, epistome long and slender; pedipalps: femur 5. 0-5.2 times (Female, 4. 7-5.0 times) (chaetotaxy: 5-5-2-5), patella 2. 1-2. times (Female, 2.1 times) longer than broad, hand 1.8 times longer than deep, fixed finger 1.8-1 .9 times longer than hand, chela 5. 0-5. 2 times longer than deep; hand with 2 long spine-like setae in medio-distal third, one slightly thickened seta in medio-basal third, movable finger with a slightly thickened seta on paraxial side near base; hand with 7-8 chemosensory setae on dorsum; fixed finger of chela with 31-35 acute erect teeth (in distal finger half with indistinctly saw-like arrangement), movable finger with 31-38 retrorso, flattened teeth.

Found in sea cliffs

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Arthropoda

Class
Arachnida

Order
Pseudoscorpiones

Family
Chthoniidae

Genus
Paraliochthonius

Species
rupicola

Taxon category: Accepted

Origin: Endemic

Distribution

Distribution: Darwin, Fernandina, Santa Fé.

References

  • Baert, L. Mahnert, V. (2015) The distribution of the non‐araneae and non‐acari arachnids of Galápagos Belgian Journal of Entomology 28: 1‐76
  • Mahnert, V. (2014) Pseudoscorpions (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) from the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) Revue suisse de Zoologie, 121: 135‐210

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