Genus: Mesochelifer Vachon, 1940 | Family: Cheliferidae Risso, 1827 | Order: Pseudoscorpiones de Geer, 1778

Mesochelifer fradei Vachon, 1940

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Mesochelifer fradei

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Genus type of Mesochelifer Vachon, 1940

Taxonomic references

Mesochelifer fradei

Vachon, 1940g: 155–159, figs 22–27 original description
Beier, 1963b: 286
Vachon, 1966c: n/a, fig. 4
Harvey, 1991a: 516
Zaragoza, 2007a: 55
Domínguez, Sánchez-Osorio, López-Pantoja, Sánchez and Zaragoza, 2008: 73–74, figs 1, 3–7
Zaragoza, 2009: 46, figs 1–12
Zaragoza, 2015: n/a, fig. 19
Zaragoza and Ruiz de la Cuesta Santiago, 2017: 148

Hysterochelifer (Mesochelifer) fradei (Vachon):

Beier, 1956e: 308

Synonyms
Mesochelifer insignis Callaini, 1986 -- synonymised by Zaragoza, 2009: 46
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Mesochelifer insignis
Callaini, 1986a: 1–7, figs 1a–g, plates 1–8 (synonymized by Zaragoza, 2009: 46) original description
Callaini, 1988b: 56
Harvey, 1991a: 516
Distribution
Distribution table

Realm: Palearctic

Algeria
Morocco
Portugal (mainland)
Spain (mainland)
Type locality: Ferreira do Alentejo, Almodovar, Beja, Portugal.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Ferreira do Alentejo (municipality) 38.05 -8.1
Type repository
    N/A
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:86901264-8255-49B9-8C0F-B499A9C259C9

References

Beier, M. (1956e). Ueber Pseudoscorpione aus Spanisch-Marocco. Eos, Madrid 31: 303–310. -- Show included taxa

Beier, M. (1963b). Ordnung Pseudoscorpionidea (Afterskorpione). In: Bestimmungsbücher zur Bodenfauna Europas Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1: vi, 313 pp.. -- Show included taxa

Callaini, G. (1986a). Mesochelifer insignis une nouvelle espèce de l'Algérie septentrionale (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpionida, Cheliferidae). Notulae Chernetologicae XX. Revue Arachnologique 7: 1–8. -- Show included taxa

Callaini, G. (1988b). Gli Pseudoscorpioni del Marocco. (Notulae Chernetologicae, XXVII). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 87: 31–66. -- Show included taxa

Domínguez, L., Sánchez-Osorio, I., López-Pantoja, G., Sánchez, I. & Zaragoza, J.A. (2008). Foresia de Mesochelifer fradei Vachon, 1940 (Pseudoscorpiones: Cheliferidae) sobre coleópteros cerambícidos en el Sur de España. Nuevos registros para la especie. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 16: 71–81. -- Show included taxa

Harvey, M.S. (1991a). Catalogue of the Pseudoscorpionida. Manchester University Press, Manchester. -- Show included taxa

Vachon, M. (1940g). Éléments de la faune portugaise des Pseudoscorpions (Arachnides) avec description de quatre espèces nouvelles. Anais da Faculdade de Ciencias do Porto Academia Polytechnica do Porto 25: 141–164. -- Show included taxa

Vachon, M. (1966c). Les conduits évacuateurs des glandes chélicériennes chez les Pseudoscorpions (Arach.). Senckenbergiana Biologica 47: 29–33. -- Show included taxa

Zaragoza, J.A. (2007a). Catálogo de los Pseudoescorpiones de la Península Ibérica e Islas Baleares (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 13: 3–91. -- Show included taxa

Zaragoza, J.A. (2009). Synonymy of Mesochelifer insignis Callaini, 1986 with Mesochelifer fradei Vachon, 1940 (Pseudoscorpiones: Cheliferidae), with remarks on the biology of the genus Mesochelifer Vachon. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 17: 45–51. -- Show included taxa

Zaragoza, J.A. (2015). Clase Arachnida, Orden Pseudoscorpiones. Revista Ibero Diversidad Entomológica 20: 1–10. -- Show included taxa

Zaragoza, J.A. & Ruiz de la Cuesta Santiago, J.L. (2017). Primera cita mundial de foresia por Pseudoscorpiones sobre Diptera, Rhinophoridae. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 147–149. -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2024-09-17 Taxonomic reference update Vachon, 1940
2022-03-04 New taxonomic reference entry Zaragoza and Ruiz de la Cuesta Santiago, 2017