Superfamily NEOBISIOIDEA Chamberlin, 1930
Compiler and date details
Mark S. Harvey, Western Australian Museum, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Introduction
The Neobisioidea consists of seven families that were placed by Harvey (1992) in their own infraorder, the Hemictenata. Neobisioids have only recently been recorded from Australia (Harvey 1991, 1993, 1998), and were not listed in an earlier version of the checklist in the Zoological Catalogue of Australia (Harvey 1985).
Diagnosis
The Neobisioidea differ from all other pseudoscorpions with a venom apparatus in one or both of the chelal fingers (the Iocheirata) by the presence of several teeth on the movable cheliceral finger, the serrula exterior attached for at most 2/3 of its length, and the chelicera without a velum.
General References
Harvey, M.S. 1985. Pseudoscorpionida. pp. 126-155 in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 3. Arachnida: Mygalomorphae, Araneomorphae (in part), Pseudoscorpionida, Amblypygi and Plapigradi. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 183 pp.
Harvey, M.S. 1991. The cavernicolous pseudoscorpions (Chelicerata: Pseudoscorpionida) of Cape Range, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 15: 487-502
Harvey, M.S. 1992. The phylogeny and classification of the Pseudoscorpionida (Chelicerata: Arachnida). Invertebrate Taxonomy 6: 1373-1435
Harvey, M.S. 1993. The systematics of the Hyidae (Pseudoscorpionida: Neobisioidea). Invertebrate Taxonomy 7: 1-32
Harvey, M.S. 1998. Pseudoscorpion groups with bipolar distributions: a new genus from Tasmania related to the Holarctic Syarinus (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones, Syarinidae). Journal of Arachnology 26: 429-441
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 31-Oct-2012 | 31-Oct-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |