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Issue: Vol. 3764 No. 3: 11 Feb. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-02-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3764.3.8
Page range: 387–393
Abstract views: 31
PDF downloaded: 1

Further records of pseudoscorpions (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones) from Saudi Arabia

Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la Ville de Genève, case postale 6434, CH-1211 Geneva 6, Switzerland.
King Saud University, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, Plant Protection Department, Economic Entomology Research Unit (EERU), P.O.Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
King Saud University, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, Plant Protection Department, Economic Entomology Research Unit (EERU), P.O.Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
New species Arabian Peninsula Palaearctic region taxonomy Asir Mountains

Abstract

Five species of pseudoscorpions are recorded from the southwestern mountains of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Pseudochthonius arabicus Mahnert n. sp. is described as new to science; this genus was previously known only from sub-Saharan Africa and tropical South America and represents the first record of the family Chthoniidae from the Arabian Peninsula. Paratemnoides ellingseni (Beier, 1932), a widespread species in tropical Africa, and Withius piger (Simon, 1878) are added to the faunal list of Saudi Arabia. Minniza monticola Mahnert, 1991 and Rhacochelifer sonyae Mahnert, 1991 are apparently endemic to the southwestern mountains of Saudi Arabia.