#NewSpecies!
New pseudoscorpion from #china just pinched us:
Stenohya fortuna
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5D2E87EE-A110-212A-30BC-FD39EB2EF8BE
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5729.3.3
#Zootaxa #StenohyaFortuna
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arthropods #arachnology #arachnids #pseudoscorpions
RE: https://mastodon.green/@plazi_species/115746512910604870
#Pseudoscorpions are #interesting and #biologically diverse #arachnids that are often overlooked due to their #smallsize. Many species are #grounddwellers or live in deadwood. The largest #taxon is the #Chernetidae, with approximately 726 extant #species. L. Laibe et al. (2025) described a new species of its genus #Attaleachernes from the eastern #Amazon region and also characterized the #habitat.
©This text #StefanFWirth Berlin 2025
Reference
L.Laibe et al.(2025)
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5716.2.4
#NewSpecies!
New pseudoscorpion from #brazil just pinched us:
Attaleachernes spelaeus
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1135C119-FFEA-FFE8-FF39-A5C0FA1EFDC0
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5716.2.4
#Zootaxa #AttaleachernesSpelaeus
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arthropods #arachnology #arachnids #pseudoscorpions
This person has discovered over 1000 new species in their lifetime. Hats off!
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/dec/05/legacy-one-of-worlds-greatest-taxonomists-perth
#NewSpecies!
New pseudoscorpion from #brazil just pinched us:
Ceriochernes foliaceospeluncarum
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7B227017-7E3A-5259-21CB-F8B1FD9342FF
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5691.1.6
#Zootaxa #CeriochernesFoliaceospeluncarum
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arthropods #arachnology #arachnids #pseudoscorpions
#Arachtober 5: the last order of arachnids I have found, pseudoscorpions! They look kind of like scorpions without tails; they are found basically everywhere on earth but Antarctica, but they are absolutely tiny and live in places like under tree bark, under rocks and logs, in leaf litter, etc., so you will rarely see them unless you're looking for them. Sometimes they can be found clinging to the legs of larger flying insects with their little claws, or indoors eating booklice and other tiny household insects.
The ones in my garden are so small you might take them for mesostigmatid mites at first glance. This one has captured a soil-dwelling mite of some kind.
#iNaturalist observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/99203146 
#ArthroBeauty #arachnids #pseudoscorpions #Pseudoscorpiones #Cthoniidae
The rain this morning brought out plenty of arthropods in the garden, including these two arachnids. A podocinid mite (https://bugguide.net/node/view/247922), a tiny mesostig with extremely long, thin front legs terminating in forked hairs; and a chthoniid pseudoscorpion, with its clawed pedipalps. Strangely akin.
#ArthroBeauty #arachnids #pseudoscorpions #mites #Pseudoscorpiones #Cthoniidae #Acari #Mesostigmata #Podocinidae
i am very tired but here's a pseudoscorpion i found under a log the other day
#bugstodon #PseudoscorpionPsaturday #arachnids #pseudoscorpions #Pseudoscorpiones #Cthoniidae
9-Jul-2025
Four newly-discovered species of #cave-dwelling #pseudoscorpions have jaws like dragons and are completely blind
not sure if it's a great idea to use imaginary animals as reference point to describe a new species?
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1089740 #science #evolution #newSpecies #arthropods #LifeOnTheEdge
I was just poking around the garden today in a spare moment and had two unexpected arachnid discoveries!!
1. A hackled orbweaver (_Uloborus glomosus_), one of the very few venomless spiders, that also makes orb webs with a fuzzy, glueless silk not often used for aerial webs—I rarely come across them and never, I think, in my own garden.
2. A new kind of pseudoscorpion—not the tiny yellowish cthoniids I'm used to, but a HUGE beast with sturdy claws, like 3mm long! I think it's family Chernetidae.
#arachnids #spiders #pseudoscorpions #Arachnida #Araneae #Uloboridae #Pseudoscorpiones #Chernetidae
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