Two new species of the pseudoscorpion subfamily Lamprochernetinae Beier, 1932 from Guizhou, China (Pseudoscorpiones: Chernetidae)

Abstract

Two new species of the pseudoscorpion subfamily Lamprochernetinae Beier, 1932 are described from Guizhou Province, China, Nudochernes pseudotroglobius sp. nov. and Megachernes biyunensis sp. nov., with detailed diagnoses, descriptions and illustrations.

Four new species of cave-adapted pseudoscorpions (Pseudoscorpiones, Pseudotyrannochthoniidae) from Guizhou, China

“…They are usually eyeless and have a hypopigmented body cuticle and elongated body appendages. To date, 54 cave-dwelling pseudoscorpion species from four families (Atemnidae, Chernetidae, Chthoniidae, Neobisiidae) have been described from China (Schawaller 1995;Mahnert 2003Mahnert , 2009Mahnert and Li 2016;Gao et al 2017Gao et al , 2018Gao et al , 2020Li et al 2017Li et al , 2019Feng et al 2019Feng et al , 2020Zhang et al 2020;Li and Wang 2021;Hou et al 2022a, b;Li 2022;Xu et al 2022), including 12 species from Guizhou. No cavernicolous pseudotyrannochthoniid species have been reported from China yet.…”

Three new species of cave-adapted pseudoscorpions (Pseudoscorpiones, Chthoniidae) from eastern Yunnan, China

“…According to a survey, more than 1000 karst caves have been found in Yunnan Province ( Ming 1997 ). To date, more than 750 cave-dwelling animals have been identified in China (nearly 15% of them are from Yunnan), including 54 cave-dwelling pseudoscorpion species (25 of them are from Yunnan) ( Schawaller 1995 ; Mahnert 2003 , 2009 ; Mahnert and Li 2016 ; Gao et al 2017 , 2018 , 2020 ; Li et al 2017 , 2019 ; Feng et al 2019 , 2020 ; Latella 2019 ; Zhang et al 2020 ; Li and Wang 2021 ; Hou et al 2022a , b ; Li 2022 ; WPC 2022 ; Xu et al 2022 ).…”