A pseudoscorpion, also known as a false scorpion or book scorpion, are arachnids belonging to the order Pseudoscorpiones, also known as Pseudoscorpionida or Chelonethida.
The year 1758 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Ralph Vary Chamberlin was an American biologist, ethnographer, and historian from Salt Lake City, Utah. He was a faculty member of the University of Utah for over 25 years, where he helped establish the School of Medicine and served as its first dean, and later became head of the zoology department. He also taught at Brigham Young University and the University of Pennsylvania, and worked for over a decade at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, where he described species from around the world.
The Clarke Medal is awarded by the Royal Society of New South Wales, the oldest learned society in Australia and the Southern Hemisphere, for distinguished work in the Natural sciences.
Coneweb spiders (Diguetidae) are six-eyed haplogyne spiders that live in tangled space webs, fashioning a cone-like central retreat where they hide and lay eggs. It is a small family, containing only two genera with fifteen species and is confined to the New World, preferring deserts. Members of the genus Diguetia usually build their webs in shrubs or between cactus pads. They have the same eye arrangement as the venomous recluse spiders, but none are known to be harmful to humans.
Winston F. Ponder is a noted malacologist from New Zealand who has named and described many marine and freshwater animals, especially micromolluscs. He graduated with an MSc, PhD and DSc from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Compsaditha is a genus of pseudoscorpions in the family Tridenchthoniidae. There are about 12 described species in Compsaditha.
Cryptoditha is a genus of pseudoscorpions in the family Tridenchthoniidae. There are at least two described species in Cryptoditha.
Ditha is a genus of pseudoscorpions in the family Tridenchthoniidae. There are about 14 described species in Ditha.
Haploditha is a genus of pseudoscorpions in the family Tridenchthoniidae. There is at least one described species in Haploditha, H. chamberlinorum.
Heterolophus is a genus of pseudoscorpions in the family Tridenchthoniidae. There are at least four described species in Heterolophus.
Neoditha is a genus of pseudoscorpions in the family Tridenchthoniidae. There is at least one described species in Neoditha, N. irusanga.
Tridenchthonius is a genus of pseudoscorpions in the family Tridenchthoniidae. There are about 16 described species in Tridenchthonius.
Typhloditha is a genus of pseudoscorpions in the family Tridenchthoniidae. There are at least three described species in Typhloditha.
Verrucadithella is a genus of pseudoscorpions in the family Tridenchthoniidae. There are at least three described species in Verrucadithella.
The Edgeworth David Medal is awarded annually by the Royal Society of New South Wales for distinguished contributions by a young scientist under the age of 35 years for work done predominantly in Australia or which contributed to the advancement of Australian science.
Synsphyronus is a genus of pseudoscorpions in the family Garypidae, which has been found in Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia.
Barbara Anne York Main was an Australian arachnologist and adjunct professor at the University of Western Australia. The author of four books and over 90 research papers, Main is recognised for her prolific work in establishing taxonomy for arachnids, personally describing 34 species and seven new genera. The BBC and ABC produced a film about her work, Lady of the Spiders, in 1981.
Stenochrus portoricensis is a species of arachnid belonging to the family Hubbardiidae in the order Schizomida, which are commonly known as short-tailed whip scorpions. They are mostly found in North and Central America, but their parthenogenetic lifestyle allows them to live in other parts of the world in temperate climates. They are able to thrive in different parts of the world, especially in caves, forests, fallen logs, and abandoned nests of termites.
Richard Walter Wells is an Australian herpetologist. He is known for editing the Australian Journal of Herpetology in the 1980s, in which he and C. Ross Wellington wrote and published three papers without academic peer review that proposed significant changes to the taxonomy and nomenclature of Australian reptiles and amphibians. In the 2000s, Wells self-published herpetological research in the Australian Biodiversity Record. The scientific names he proposed therein are the subject of a boycott begun in 2013 by some members of the herpetological community.
