Apocheiridium ferum (Simon, 1879) (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones, Cheiridiidae), a newly recorded genus and species of pseudoscorpion for Hungary

Jana Christophoryová; Martina Červená

doi:10.15560/16.2.223

Check List 16(2): 223-228, doi: 10.15560/16.2.223

Apocheiridium ferum (Simon, 1879) (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones, Cheiridiidae), a newly recorded genus and species of pseudoscorpion for Hungary

Jana Christophoryová^‡, Martina Červená^‡

‡ Department of Zoology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia

Corresponding author: Jana Christophoryová ( christophoryova@gmail.com )

Academic editor: Alireza Zamani

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Citation: Christophoryová J, Červená M (2020) Apocheiridium ferum (Simon, 1879) (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones, Cheiridiidae), a newly recorded genus and species of pseudoscorpion for Hungary. Check List 16(2): 223-228. https://doi.org/10.15560/16.2.223

Abstract

The genus Apocheiridium Chamberlin, 1924 is reported from Hungary for the first time. Adults of Apocheiridium ferum (Simon, 1879) were collected under the bark of a Platanus Linné, 1753 tree in Pápa, Veszprém County. Simul-taneously, the second known European cheiridiid species, Cheiridium museorum (Leach, 1817), was found under the same bark. The differences between these two species are discussed. With the new record of A. ferum, 54 species and 21 genera are now known for the Hungarian fauna of Pseudoscorpiones.

Keywords

Central Europe, Cheiridium museorum, distribution, faunistics, first record