Species Lamprochernes savignyi (Simon, 1881)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chelifer savignyi Simon, E. 1881. Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux d'Afrique. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 6: 1-15 [12].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP sex unknown (lost), Ramlé [= Ramleh], Alexandria, Egypt.
• Chelifer pygmaeus Koch, L. & Keyerling, E. 1885. Ordo Chelonethi. pp. 44-51 in Koch, L. & Keyserling, E. (eds). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 2. [49].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1913.9.1.357 ♀ (on slide), Gayndah, Queensland, Australia.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1913.9.1.358-396, 1891.8.1.1078-1084 46♀ (on slides and in alcohol), Gayndah, Queensland, Australia; NMV K336-338 3♀ (on slides and in alcohol), Gayndah, Queensland, Australia.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Harvey, M.S. 1987. Redescription and new synonyms of the cosmopolitan species Lamprochernes savignyi (Simon) (Chernetidae: Pseudoscorpionida). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 7: 111-116 [112].
• Chelifer brevifemoratus Balzan, L. 1890. Revisione dei Pseudoscorpione del bacino dei fiumi Paranà e Paraguay nell'America meridionale. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 2 9: 401-454 [420].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown unknown number of specimens, Ascunsion, Paraguay; whereabouts unknown 1 specimen, Resistencia, Argentina.
• Chelifer celerrimus With, C.J. 1908. An account of the South-American Cheliferinae in the collections of the British and Copenhagen Museums. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 18: 217-340 [285].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1985.11.1.1 ♀ (on slide), Balthazar, Grenada.
• Chelifer (Chernes) godfreyi Kew, H.W. 1911. A synopsis of the false scorpions of Britain and Ireland. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy B 29: 38-64 [42].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown unknown number of specimens (not in BMNH or NMI), Petersham, England; whereabouts unknown unknown number of specimens (not in BMNH or NMI), Newport, Isle of Wight, England; whereabouts unknown unknown number of specimens (not in BMNH or NMI), Hatfield, England; whereabouts unknown unknown number of specimens (not in BMNH or NMI), South Norwood, England; whereabouts unknown unknown number of specimens (not in BMNH or NMI), Oban, Scotland; whereabouts unknown unknown number of specimens (not in BMNH or NMI), Rathmines, County Dublin, Ireland.
• Pycnochernes linsdalei Chamberlin, J.C. 1952. New and little-known false scorpions (Arachnida, Chelonethida) from Monterey County, California. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 99: 259-312 [275].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH JC-1225.08001 ♀ (on slide), Frances Simes Hastings Natural History Reservation, Monterey County, California, USA.
  Paratype(s) CAS JC-264.01001 1♀ (on slide), Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America.
• Muscichernes katoi Morikawa, K. 1960. Systematic studies of Japanese pseudoscorpions. Memoirs of the Ehime University Natural Sciences Series B 2B 4: 85-172 [140].

  Type data:

   Holotype EU ♀, Shakujii, Tokyo, Japan.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Harvey, M.S. 1987. Redescription and new synonyms of the cosmopolitan species Lamprochernes savignyi (Simon) (Chernetidae: Pseudoscorpionida). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 7: 111-116 [111]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Introduced from not known.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Victoria: SE coastal
• New Zealand

Nearctic Region

• United States of America

Neotropical Region

Palaearctic Region

Ecological Descriptors

Litter, predator, terrestrial.

 

General References

Harvey, M.S. 1987. Redescription and new synonyms of the cosmopolitan species Lamprochernes savignyi (Simon) (Chernetidae: Pseudoscorpionida). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 7: 111-116 [111] (redescription)

 

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)