A New Genus and Species of Chernetid Pseudoscorpion (Pseudoscorpiones: Chernetidae) from Hainan Island, China

Zhizhong Gao; Feng Zhang

doi:10.3157/021.122.0505

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Zhizhong Gao,^1,* Feng Zhang¹

¹2 College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China. E-mails: FZ, dudu0

^*(corresponding author), Zz G, gaozhizhong1987@126.com.

Abstract

Sinochernes wuzhiensis gen. n., sp. n., belonging to the family Chernetidae Menge, 1855, is described on the basis of sixteen specimens collected from tropical forest leaf litter in Wuzhi Mountain, Hainan Island, China. The genus is characterized by the presence of only 4 setae on cheliceral hand and of 3 blades in rallum, by the spermathecae having 2 thin tubes, by the presence of a tactile seta on tarsus IV and by the trichobothrial pattern. Detailed diagnosis, descriptions and illustrations are presented in this paper.

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Zhizhong Gao and Feng Zhang "A New Genus and Species of Chernetid Pseudoscorpion (Pseudoscorpiones: Chernetidae) from Hainan Island, China," Entomological News 122(5), 432-440, (1 December 2011). https://doi.org/10.3157/021.122.0505

Received: 13 April 2012; Accepted: 1 July 2012; Published: 1 December 2011

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