Check List 17(2): 497-501, doi: 10.15560/17.2.497
Lamprochernes savignyi (Simon, 1881) (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones) recorded in Central Europe for the first time
Jana Christophoryová‡, José D. Gilgado§, Ian Bobbitt§, Katarína Krajčovičovᇇ Department of Zoology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia§ Section of Conservation Biology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Corresponding author: Jana Christophoryová ( christophoryova@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Regiane Saturnino © Jana Christophoryová, José D. Gilgado, Ian Bobbitt, Katarína Krajčovičová. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Christophoryová J, Gilgado JD, Bobbitt I, Krajčovičová K (2021) Lamprochernes savignyi (Simon, 1881) (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones) recorded in Central Europe for the first time. Check List 17(2): 497-501. https://doi.org/10.15560/17.2.497 |  |
Abstract
The pseudoscorpion Lamprochernes savignyi (Simon, 1881) is reported in Central Europe for the first time. The new record from Switzerland is based on a single female specimen found in a compost heap in the Conservatory and Botanical Garden in Geneva. Until now, the species is distributed mainly in Africa, Americas, and Asia, less in Australia and Oceania, Europe, and the Arabian Peninsula. The new record fills in the gap in species distribution between Northern Europe and the Anatolian Peninsula. A description of the collected female is provided.
Keywords
Botanical garden, distribution, faunistics, phoresy, Switzerland