Genus Lagynochthonius Beier, 1951

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• Lagynochthonius Beier, M. 1951. Die Pseudoscorpione Indochinas. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] ns 1: 47-123 [61] [originally described as a subgenus of Tyrannochthonius Chamberlin, 1929].

  Type species:

   Chthonius johni Redikorzev, 1922 by original designation.

 

Introduction

An unnamed species "sp. ‘Mesa K’" described by Edward and Harvey (2008) from 1 tritonymph from Mesa K, ~11 km SSW of Pannawonica, borehole MEK1689.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL) ; Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII) ; WA: Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf
  • Western Australia: N coastal, SW coastal

Neotropical Region

Oriental Region

Distribution References

General References

Edward, K.L. & Harvey, M.S. 2008. Short-range endemism in hypogean environments: the pseudoscorpion genera Tyrannochthonius and Lagynochthonius (Pseudoscorpiones: Chthoniidae) in the semiarid zone of Western Australia. Invertebrate Systematics 22: 259–293 [288]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
31-Oct-2012		31-Oct-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)