Chthonioidea
Appearance
Chthonioidea | |
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Pseudoscorpion Chthonius from W Serbia | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Pseudoscorpiones |
Suborder: | Heterosphyronida |
Superfamily: | Chthonioidea |
Families | |
The Chthonioidea are a superfamily of pseudoscorpions, representing the earliest diverging and most primitive living pseudoscorpions. The superfamily contains two families.[1]
- Pseudotyrannochthoniidae — worldwide (c. 5 genera, 50 species)
- Chthoniidae — worldwide ( 40 genera, 600 species)
Some authors consider the genus Lechytia to be in its own family Lechytiidae, rather than to reside in Chthoniidae.[2]
Footnotes
[edit]- ^ Benavides, Ligia R.; Cosgrove, Julia G.; Harvey, Mark S.; Giribet, Gonzalo (October 2019). "Phylogenomic interrogation resolves the backbone of the Pseudoscorpiones tree of life". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 139: 106509. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2019.05.023. PMID 31132522. S2CID 167218890.
- ^ Biology Catalog: Lechytiidae Archived 2014-07-30 at the Wayback Machine