Species Synsphyronus niger Hoff, 1947

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• Synsphyronus (Maorigarypus) niger Hoff, C.C. 1947. New species of diplosphyronid pseudoscorpions from Australia. Psyche (Cambridge) 54: 36-56 [45].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ ♂ (on slide), Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Predator, terrestrial, woodland.

 

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—as Synsphyronus (Maorigarypus) nullarborensis Beier)

Harvey, M.S. 1987. A revision of the genus Synsphyronus Chamberlin (Garypidae: Pseudoscorpionida: Arachnida). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 126: 1-99 [39] (redescription, 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)