Species Protochelifer cavernarum Beier, 1967

Museums

Regional Maps

• Protochelifer cavernarum Beier, M. 1967. Some Pseudoscorpionidea from Australia, chiefly from caves. The Australian Zoologist 14: 199-205 [203].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) SAMA N1977167–171 3♂ 2♀ (in alcohol), Murder Cave, Cliefden, New South Wales, Australia; AM KS5318 1 tritonymph, 1 protonymph (in alcohol), Belfry Cave, Timor, New South Wales, Australia; AM KS5317 1 tritonymph (in alcohol), Timor Caves, Timor, New South Wales, Australia; NHMW 3♂ 2♀ (in alcohol), Murder Cave, Cliefden, New South Wales, Australia.
• Protochelifer cavernarum aitkeni Beier, M. 1968. Some cave-dwelling Pseudoscorpionidea from Australia and New Caledonia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 15: 757-765 [764].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA N196838 ♀ (in alcohol), Abrakurrie Cave, Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia, Australia.
  Paratype(s) SAMA N197923a-c 2♀, 1 tritonymph (1♀ missing) (in alcohol), Abrakurrie Cave, Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia, Australia.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Harvey, M.S. 1981. A checklist of the Australian Pseudoscorpionida. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 5: 237-252 [238]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Cave dweller, predator, terrestrial.

 

General References

Beier, M. 1968. Some cave-dwelling Pseudoscorpionidea from Australia and New Caledonia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 15: 757-765 [764] (distribution)

Beier, M. 1969. Neue Pseudoskorpione aus Australien. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 73: 171-187 [Date published November 1969] [187] (distribution)

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)

Richards, A.M. 1971. An ecological study of the cavernicolous fauna of the Nullarbor Plain, southern Australia. Journal of Zoology, London 164: 1-60 (biology, distribution)

 

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)