Tridenchthoniidae

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Tridenchthoniidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Pseudoscorpionida
Suborder: Mysticeti
Superfamily: Chthonioidea
Family: Tridenchthoniidae
Balzan, 1892
Diversity
17 genera, c. 70 species
Genera

Anaulacodithella
Anisoditha
Chelignathus
Compsaditha
Cryptoditha
Ditha
Dithella
Haploditha
Heterolophus
Neoditha
Pycnodithella
Sororoditha
Tridenchthonium
Tyhloditha
Verrucaditha
Verrucadithella

Tridenchthoniidae is a family of pseudoscorpions within the superfamily Chthonioidea. The family contains one fossil and 15 recent genera.[1]

[edit] Species

The species list follows Mark S. Harvey's species listing[1].
  • Anaulacodithella Beier, 1944
  • Anaulacodithella angustimana Beier, 1955southern Africa
  • Anaulacodithella australica Beier, 1969Australia
  • Anaulacodithella deserticola (Beier, 1947) — southern Africa
  • Anaulacodithella mordax (Tullgren, 1907) — southern Africa
  • Anaulacodithella novacaledonica Beier, 1966New Caledonia
  • Anaulacodithella plurisetosa Beier, 1976Lord Howe Island
  • Anaulacodithella reticulata Beier, 1966 — New Caledonia
  • Anisoditha curvidigitatus (Balzan, 1887)Paraguay
  • Chelignathus Menge, in C.L.Koch & Berendt 1854
  • Chelignathus kochi Menge, in C.L.Koch & Berendt 1854 — fossil (oligocene)
  • Compsaditha J.C. Chamberlin, 1929
  • Compsaditha aburi J.C. Chamberlin & R.V. Chamberlin, 1945central Africa
  • Compsaditha angustula Beier, 1972Zaire
  • Compsaditha basilewskyi Beier, 1962Tanzania
  • Compsaditha camponota Sivaraman, 1980India
  • Compsaditha congica Beier, 1959 — Zaire
  • Compsaditha elegantula Beier, 1972 — Zaire
  • Compsaditha fiegrigi Beier, 1931Brazil, Paraguay
  • Compsaditha gressitti Beier, 1957Caroline Islands
  • Compsaditha indica Murthy, 1960 — India
  • Compsaditha parva Beier, 1951Vietnam
  • Compsaditha pygmaea J.C. Chamberlin, 1929Philippines
  • Compsaditha seychellensis Beier, 1974Seychelles
  • Cryptoditha J.C. Chamberlin & R.V. Chamberlin, 1945
  • Cryptoditha elegans (Beier, 1931)
  • Ditha J.C. Chamberlin, 1929
  • subgenus Ditha J.C. Chamberlin, 1929
  • Ditha elegans J.C. Chamberlin, 1929Indonesia
  • Ditha loricata Beier, 1965New Guinea
  • Ditha novaeguineae Beier, 1965 — New Guinea
  • Ditha ogasawarensis Sato, 1981Japan
  • Ditha palauensis Beier, 1957Palau
  • Ditha philippinensis J.C. Chamberlin, 1929 — Philippines
  • Ditha proxima (Beier, 1951)Nepal, Vietnam
  • subgenus Paraditha Beier, 1931
  • Ditha laosana (Beier, 1951)Laos
  • Ditha latimana Beier, 1931 — Tanzania
  • Ditha marcusensis (Morikawa, 1952)Marcus Island
  • Ditha pahangica (Beier, 1955)Malaysia
  • Ditha sinuata (Tullgren, 1901)Africa
  • Ditha sumatraensis (J.C. Chamberlin, 1923)
  • Ditha tonkinensis Beier, 1951 — Vietnam
  • Dithella J.C. Chamberlin & R.V. Chamberlin, 1945
  • Dithella javana (Tullgren, 1912)Java
  • Haploditha Caporiacco, 1951
  • Haploditha chamberlinorum Caporiacco, 1951Venezuela
  • Heterolophus Tomosvary, 1884
  • Heterolophus australicus Beier, 1969Australia
  • Heterolophus clathratus (Tullgren, 1907) — southern Africa
  • Heterolophus guttiger Tomosvary, 1884Argentina, Brazil
  • Heterolophus nitens Tomosvary, 1884 —Brazil
  • Neoditha Feio, 1945
  • Neoditha irusanga Feio, 1945 — Brazil
  • Pycnodithella Beier, 1947
  • Soroditha J.C. Chamberlin & R.V. Chamberlin, 1945
  • Soroditha hirsuta (Balzan, 1887) — Brazil
  • Tridenchthonius Balzan, 1887
  • Tridenchthonius addititius Hoff, 1950São Thomé, Ghana, "St.Thomas Island"
  • Tridenchthonius africanus (Beier, 1931) — Tanzania
  • Tridenchthonius beieri Mahnert, 1983Kenya
  • Tridenchthonius brasiliensis Mahnert, 1979 — Brazil
  • Tridenchthonius buchwaldi (Tullgren, 1907)Ecuador
  • Tridenchthonius cubanus (J.C. Chamberlin, 1929)Cuba, Jamaica
  • Tridenchthonius donaldi Turk, 1946Trinidad
  • Tridenchthonius gratus Hoff, 1963 — Jamaica
  • Tridenchthonius juxtlahuanca J.C. Chamberlin & R.V. Chamberlin, 1945Mexico
  • Tridenchthonius mexicanus J.C. Chamberlin & R.V. Chamberlin, 1945 — Mexico
  • Tridenchthonius parvidentatus Balzan, 1887South America
  • Tridenchthonius parvulus Balzan, 1887Paraguay
  • Tridenchthonius peruanus Beier, 1955Peru
  • Tridenchthonius serrulatus (Silvestri, 1918)Ivory Coast, Nigeria
  • Tridenchthonius surinamus (Beier, 1931)Surinam
  • Tridenchthonius trinidadensis Hoff, 1946 — Trinidad
  • Typhloditha Beier, 1955
  • Typhloditha anophthalma Beier, 1955 — Zaire
  • Typhloditha minima Beier, 1959 — Congo
  • Typhloditha termitophila Beier, 1964 — southern Africa
  • Verrucaditha J.C. Chamberlin, 1929
  • Verrucaditha spinosa (Banks, 1893) — eastern USA
  • Verrucadithella Beier, 1931
  • Verrucadithella dilatimana (Redikorzev, 1924) — central Africa
  • Verrucadithella francisi Feio, 1945 — Brazil
  • Verrucadithella jeanneli Beier, 1935 — Kenya, Uganda
  • Verrucadithella sulcatimana Beier, 1944 — Tanzania

The genus Cecoditha Mello-Leitão was synonymized with Austrochthonius.[2]

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ a b Biology Catalog
  2. ^ Judson 2001

[edit] References

Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog: Tridenchthoniidae

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