Elassommatina

Oratemnus sp., copyright K. Edward.

Belongs within: Panctenata.
Contains: Chernetidae, Cheliferinae.

The Elassommatina is a clade of pseudoscorpions including species in which all legs have five post-coxal segments (with the tarsus undivided), and which have two or no eyes (Muchmore 1990).

<==Elassommatina MHG08
|–+–Cheiridioidea MHG08
|  |    |–Pseudochiridium M90 [Pseudochiridiidae MHG08, Pseudochiridiinae]
|  |    |    `–P. insulae M90
|  |    `–Cheiridiidae [Cheiridiinae] MHG08
|  |         |–Cheiridium museorum M90
|  |         `–Apocheiridium M90
|  `–Sternophoridae [Sternophoroidea] MHG08
|       |–Afrosternophorus MHG08
|       |–Garyops MHG08
|       |    |–G. depressus MHG08
|       |    `–G. pumilus M90
|       `–Idiogaryops M90
|            |–I. paludis M90
|            `–I. pumilis RS10
`–Cheliferoidea [Atemnidae, Cheliferidae, Miratemnidae, Miratemninae] MHG08
|  i. s.: Levichelifer [incl. Ocalachelifer] M90
|           |–L. cribratus M90
|           `–L. fulvopalpus M90
|         Paratemnus elongatus M90
|         Diplotemnus rothi M90
|         Haplochelifer philipi M90
|         Tyrannochelifer floridanus M90
|         Ellingsenius sculpturatus M90
|         Pugnochelifer amoenus M90
|         Dactylochelifer M90
|           |–D. copiosus M90
|           `–D. silvestris M90
|         Florichelifer aureus M90
|         Parachelifer M90
|         Xenochelifer davidi M90
|         Aspurochelifer littlefieldi M90
|         Hysterochelifer M90
|         Phorochelifer mundus M90
|         Idiochelifer nigripalpus M90
|         Paisochelifer M90
|           |–P. callus M90
|           `–P. utahensis M90
|–Chernetidae MHG08
`–+–+–Caecatemnus MHG08
|  `–Philomaoria [Philomaoriinae] MHG08
|       `–P. pallipes (White 1849) [=Chelifer pallipes] T13
`–+–+–+–Parazaona MHG08
|  |  `–Withiidae MHG08
|  |       |–Withius piger M90
|  |       `–Juxtachelifer fructuosus M90
|  `–Atemninae MHG08
|       |–Cyclatemnus MHG08
|       |–Oratemnus Beier 1932 MHG08, ABH14
|       |    |–*O. articulosus (Simon 1899) ABH14
|       |    |–O. afghanicus Beier 1959 ABH14
|       |    |–O. boettcheri Beier 1932 ABH14
|       |    |–O. brevidigitatus Beier 1940 ABH14
|       |    |–O. confusus Murthy & Ananthakrishnan 1977 ABH14
|       |    |–O. curtus (Beier 1954) ABH14
|       |    |–O. distinctus (Beier 1948) ABH14
|       |    |–O. loyolai Sivaraman 1980 ABH14
|       |    |–O. manilanus Beier 1932 ABH14
|       |    |–O. proximus Beier 1932 ABH14
|       |    |–O. punctatus (Koch & Keyserling 1885) ABH14
|       |    |–O. samoanus Beier 1932 ABH14
|       |    |–O. semidivisus (Redikorzev 1938) ABH14
|       |    |–O. timorensis Beier 1932 ABH14
|       |    `–O. yodai Morikawa 1968 ABH14
|       |–Stenatemnus Beier 1932 ABH14
|       |    `–S. fuchsi (Tullgren 1907) [=Chelifer fuchsi] J98
|       |–Titanatemnus Beier 1932 ABH14
|       |–Anatemnus Beier 1932 ABH14
|       |    |–*A. javanus (Thorell 1883) [=Chelifer javanus] ABH14
|       |    |–A. cavernicola (Beier 1976) [=Oratemnus cavernicola] ABH14
|       |    |–A. luzonicus Beier 1932 ABH14
|       |    |–A. madecassus Beier 1932 ABH14
|       |    |–A. nilgiricus Beier 1932 ABH14
|       |    |–A. orites (Thorell 1889) ABH14
|       |    |–A. subindicus (Ellingsen 1910) ABH14
|       |    |–A. subvastus Alexander, Burger & Harvey 2014 ABH14
|       |    |–A. subvermiformis (Redikorzev 1938) ABH14
|       |    `–A. tonkinensis Beier 1943 ABH14
|       |–Catatemnus Beier 1932 ABH14
|       |    |–C. braunsi (Tullgren 1907) ABH14
|       |    `–C. comorensis (Ellingsen 1910) ABH14
|       |–Metatemnus Beier 1932 ABH14
|       |–Tamenus Beier 1932 ABH14
|       |–Mesatemnus Beier & Turk 1952 ABH14
|       |    `–M. cyprianus ABH14
|       `–Synatemnus Beier 1944 ABH14
`–+–Miratemnus MHG08
`–Cheliferinae MHG08

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[ABH14] Alexander, J. B., M. A. A. Burger & M. S. Harvey. 2014. A new species of troglobitic Anatemnus (Pseudoscorpiones: Atemnidae) from the Pilbara bioregion of Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 29 (2): 141–148.

[J98] Jäger, P. 1998. Das Typenmaterial der Spinnentiere (Arachnida: Acari, Amblypygi, Araneae, Opiliones, Pseudoscorpiones, Scorpiones, Uropygi) aus dem Museum Wiesbaden. Jahrbuecher des Nassauischen Vereins fuer Naturkunde 119: 81–91.

[M90] Muchmore, W. B. 1990. Pseudoscorpionida. In: Dindal, D. L. (ed.) Soil Biology Guide pp. 503–527. John Wiley & Sones: New York.

[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.

[RS10] Regier, J. C., J. W. Shultz, A. Zwick, A. Hussey, B. Ball, R. Wetzer, J. W. Martin & C. W. Cunningham. 2010. Arthropod relationships revealed by phylogenomic analysis of nuclear protein-coding sequences. Nature 463: 1079–1083.

[T13] Taylor, C. K. 2013. Further notes on New Zealand Enantiobuninae (Opiliones, Neopilionidae), with the description of a new genus and two new species. ZooKeys 263: 59–73.

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