Species Austrochernes imitans (Beier, 1969)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Troglochernes imitans Beier, M. 1969. Neue Pseudoskorpione aus Australien. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 73: 171-187 [Date published November 1969] [185].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA N1980192 ♂ (in alcohol), Dingo Cave, Western Australia, Australia.
  Paratype(s) SAMA N1980193 1♀ (allotype) (in alcohol), Dingo Cave, Western Australia, Australia; NHMW 2♀ (in alcohol), Dingo Cave, Western Australia, Australia.

Generic Combinations

• Austrochernes imitans (Beier, 1969).

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Hampton (HAM), Nullarbor (NUL)

Ecological Descriptors

Cave dweller, predator, terrestrial.

General References

Beier, M. 1975. Neue Pseudoskorpione aus Australien und Neu-Guinea. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 78: 203-213 [title page bears the date December 1974] [203] (distribution)

Harvey, M.S. & Volschenk, E.S. 2007. A review of some Australasian Chernetidae: Sundochernes, Troglochernes and a new genus (Pseudoscorpiones). Journal of Arachnology 35: 238–277 [243] (review, new records)

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