Family SYARINIDAE Chamberlin, 1930
Compiler and date details
Mark S. Harvey, Western Australian Museum, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Introduction
The Syarinidae comprises 16 genera and nearly 100 species (Harvey 1991), the largest of which is Ideoblothrus, with 37 species. Many syarinid genera are restricted to the Northern Hemisphere, but a distinct tropical element is also apparent (e.g. Ideobisium and Ideoblothrus), and the recent discovery of an endemic Tasmanian genus further extends the range of this family (Harvey 1998).
The described Australian fauna consists of two cavernicolous species of Ideoblothrus (Harvey 1991) and two litter-dwelling species of Anysrius from Tasmania (Harvey 1998), but numerous undescribed species of Ideobisium and Ideoblothrus are known from the tropical rainforests of eastern Queensland (Harvey, unpublished data).
Diagnosis
All Australian syarinid species differ from other neobisioids by the presence of a lanceolate trichobothrium t; however, this feature does not hold for several Northern Hemisphere species currently attributed to the family (Muchmore 1982).
General References
Harvey, M.S. 1991. Catalogue of the Pseudoscorpionida. Manchester : Manchester University Press.
Harvey, M.S. 1991. The cavernicolous pseudoscorpions (Chelicerata: Pseudoscorpionida) of Cape Range, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 15: 487-502
Harvey, M.S. 1998. Pseudoscorpion groups with bipolar distributions: a new genus from Tasmania related to the Holarctic Syarinus (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones, Syarinidae). Journal of Arachnology 26: 429-441
Muchmore, W.B. 1982. The genera Ideobisium and Ideoblothrus, with remarks on the family Syarinidae (Pseudoscorpionida). Journal of Arachnology 10: 193-221
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 31-Oct-2012 | 31-Oct-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |