Genus Tyrannochthonius Chamberlin, 1929

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• Tyrannochthonius Chamberlin, J.C. 1929. A synoptic classification of the false scorpions or chela-spinners, with a report on a cosmopolitan collection of the same. Part I. The Heterosphyronida (Chthoniidae) (Arachnida-Chelonethida). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 4: 50-80 [74].

  Type species:

   Chthonius terribilis With, 1906 by original designation.
• Pholeochthonius Beier, M. 1976. The pseudoscorpions of New Zealand, Norfolk and Lord Howe. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 3: 199-246 [209] [first introduced as a subgenus of Paraliochthonius Beier, 1956].

  Type species:

   Paraliochthonius (Pholeochthonius) cavernicola Beier, 1976 by monotypy.
• Parachthonius Caporiacco, L. di 1949. Aracnidi della colonia del Kenya raccolti da Toschi e Meneghetti negli anni 1944-1946. Commentationes Pontificiae Academia Scientarum 13: 309-492 [317].

  Type species:

   Parachthonius meneghettii Caporiacco, 1949 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Harvey, M.S. 1989. Two new cavernicolous chthoniids from Australia, with notes on the generic placement of the south-western Pacific species attributed to the genera Paraliochthonius Beier and Morikawia Chamberlin (Pseudoscorpionida: Chthoniidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 8: 21-29 [23]

 

Introduction

An unnamed species was described by Edward and Harvey (2008) from immatures: "sp. ‘Warramboo’" from Warramboo, 11.8 km SSE of Yarraloola Homestead, borehole MEAD2380.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Worldwide.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Murchison (MUR) ; NSW: Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC) ; NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Wet Tropics (WT) ; WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Dampierland (DL), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Yalgoo (YAL)

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Lord Howe Island
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Norfolk Island
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal
• New Zealand

Nearctic Region

Neotropical Region

Oriental Region

Palaearctic 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

 

History of changes

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