Cheliferinae

Chelifer cancroides, copyright Seabrooke Leckie.

Belongs within: Elassommatina.

The Cheliferinae are a group of pseudoscorpions in which the cheliceral flagellum is composed of three setae, and coxal sacs are present in the fourth coxae of males.

<==CheliferinaeMHG08
    |--Nannochelifer Beier 1967MHG08, H09
    |--Protochelifer victorianusMHG08
    `--Chelifer Geoffroy 1762H02
         |--C. argentinus Thorell 1887T89
         |--C. bicolor Risso 1826R26
         |--C. bifissusS99
         |--C. birmanicus Thorell 1889T89
         |--C. bisulcus Thorell 1889T89
         |--C. brevidigitatus Koch & Keyserling 1884-1885KK90
         |--C. brevispinosus Koch & Keyserling 1884-1885KK90
         |--C. cancroides (Linnaeus 1758)H02 [=Acarus cancroidesH02, Phalangium cancroidesD07, Scorpio cancroidesL02]
         |--C. claviger Thorell 1889T89
         |--C. depressusT89
         |--C. dubiusS61
         |--C. hansenii Thorell 1889T89
         |--C. hermanniR26
         |--C. laysanensis Simon 1899S99
         |--C. muscorumR26
         |--C. nodosusT89
         |--C. orites Thorell 1889T89
         |--C. pediculoides Lucas 1846E12
         |--C. politusT89
         |--C. punctatus Koch & Keyserling 1884-1885KK90
         |--C. pygmaeus Koch & Keyseling 1884-1885KK90
         |--C. ramosus Koch & Keyserling 1884-1885KK90
         |--C. subrubrusT89
         |--C. sumatranus Thorell 1889T89
         `--C. tuberculatus Lucas 1846E12

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[D07] Dunlop, J. A. 2007. Paleontology. In: Pinto-da-Rocha, R., G. Machado & G. Giribet (eds) Harvestmen: The Biology of Opiliones pp. 247–265. Harvard University Press: Cambridge (Massachusetts).

[E12] Evenhuis, N. L. 2012. Publication and dating of the Exploration Scientifique de l’Algérie: Histoire Naturelle des Animaux Articulés (1846–1849) by Pierre Hippolyte Lucas. Zootaxa 3448: 1–61.

[H02] Harvey, M. S. 2002. The neglected cousins: what do we know about the smaller arachnid orders? Journal of Arachnology 30 (2): 357–372.

[H09] Harvey, M. S. 2009. The first Australasian species of the halophilic pseudoscorpion genus Paraliochthonius (Pseudoscorpiones: Chthoniidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 25 (3): 329–344.

[KK90] Koch, L., & E. Keyserling. 1884–1890. Die Arachniden Australiens nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet vol. 2. Bauer & Raspe: Nürnberg.

[L02] Latreille, P. A. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière des crustacés et des insectes vol. 3. Familles naturelles des genres. F. Dufart: Paris.

[MHG08] Murienne, J., M. S. Harvey & G. Giribet. 2008. First molecular phylogeny of the major clades of Pseudoscorpiones (Arthropoda: Chelicerata). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49: 170–184.

[R26] Risso, A. 1826. Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l’Europe méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes maritimes vol. 5. F.-G. Levrault: Paris.

[S61] Schweizer, J. 1961. Die Landmilben der Schweiz (Mittelland, Jura und Alpen): Parasitiformes Reuter, mit 246 Arten und Varietäten und 268 meist kombinierten Originalzeichnungen. Denkschriften der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft [Mémoires de la Société Helvétique des Sciences Naturelles] 84: i–vii, 1–207.

[S99] Simon, E. 1899. Ergebnisse einer Reise nach dem Pacific (Schauinsland 1896–1897). Arachnoideen. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie un Biologie der Thiere 12 (4): 411–437.

[T89] Thorell, T. 1889. Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. XXI.—Aracnidi Artrogastri Birmani raccolti da L. Fea nel 1885–1887. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Serie 2a, 7: 521–729.

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