Pseudocellus

Pseudocellus
Pseudocellus bifer male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Ricinulei
Family:	Ricinoididae
Genus:	Pseudocellus Platnick, 1980
Type species
Cryptocellus dorotheae Gertsch & Mulaik, 1939
Species
41, see text

Pseudocellus is an arachnid genus in the order Ricinulei, first described by Norman Platnick in 1980. It is native to the Neotropics. ^[1]

Species

As of October 2022 ^[update] it contains forty-one species: ^[2]

• Pseudocellus abeli Armas, 2017 — Cuba
• Pseudocellus alux Armas & Agreda, 2016 — Guatemala
• Pseudocellus aridus Teruel, 2015 — Cuba
• Pseudocellus bifer Teruel, 2018 — Cuba
• Pseudocellus barberi (Ewing, 1929) — Guatemala, Honduras (nomen dubium)
• Pseudocellus blesti (Merrett, 1960) — Panama
• Pseudocellus bolivari Gertsch, 1971 — Mexico
• Pseudocellus boneti (Bolívar y Pieltain, 1942) — Mexico
• Pseudocellus chankin Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2011 — Mexico
• Pseudocellus cookei (Gertsch, 1977) — Guatemala
• Pseudocellus cruzlopezi Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2013 — Mexico
• Pseudocellus cubanicus (Dumitresco & Juvara-balş, 1973) — Cuba
• Pseudocellus dissimilior Teruel, 2018 — Cuba
• Pseudocellus dissimulans (Cooke & Shadab, 1973) — El Salvador
• Pseudocellus dorotheae (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1939) — US
• Pseudocellus franckei Valdez-Mondragón & Cortez-Roldán, 2020 — Mexico
• Pseudocellus gertschi (Márquez & Conconi, 1974) — Mexico
• Pseudocellus giribeti Valdez-Mondragón & Cortez-Roldán, 2021 — Mexico
• Pseudocellus ignotus Armas, 2017 — Cuba
• Pseudocellus jarocho Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2011 — Mexico
• Pseudocellus krejcae Cokendolpher & Enríquez, 2004 — Belize
• Pseudocellus mayari (Armas, 1977) — Cuba
• Pseudocellus mitchelli Gertsch, 1971 — Mexico
• Pseudocellus monjarazi Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2013 — Mexico
• Pseudocellus olmeca Valdez-Mondragón, Francke & Botero-Trujillo, 2018 — Mexico
• Pseudocellus osorioi (Bolívar y Pieltain, 1946) — Mexico
• Pseudocellus oztotl Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2011 — Mexico
• Pseudocellus pachysoma Teruel & Armas, 2008 — Cuba
• Pseudocellus paradoxus (Cooke, 1972) — Cuba
• Pseudocellus pearsei (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1938) — Mexico
• Pseudocellus pelaezi (Coronado Gutierrez, 1970) — Mexico
• Pseudocellus permagnus Armas, 2017 — Cuba
• Pseudocellus platnicki Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2011 — Mexico
• Pseudocellus quetzalcoatl Valdez-Mondragón, Francke & Botero-Trujillo, 2018 — Mexico
• Pseudocellus reddelli (Gertsch, 1971) — Mexico
• Pseudocellus relictus (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1938) — Panama
• Pseudocellus sbordonii (Brignoli, 1974) — Mexico
• Pseudocellus seacus Platnick & Pass, 1982 — Guatemala
• Pseudocellus silvai (Armas, 1977) — Cuba
• Pseudocellus spinotibialis (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1952) — Mexico
• Pseudocellus undatus Armas, 2017 — Cuba
• Pseudocellus valerdii Valdez-Mondragón & Juárez-Sánchez, 2021 — Mexico

References

1. Platnick, Norman (1980). "On the phylogeny of Ricinulei". In Gruber, Jürgen (ed.). Verhandlungen 8. Internationaler Arachnologen-Kongress abgehalten an der Universität für Bodenkultur, Wien. Vienna: H. Egermann. pp. 349–353.
2. "Genus: Pseudocellus Platnick, 1980". World Ricinulei Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2022.

• G. Talarico, J. G. Palacios-Vargas & G. Alberti (2008). "Taste while chewing? Sensory structures in the chelicerae of Pseudocellus pearsei (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1938) (Ricinulei, Arachnida)". Revista Ibérica de Aracnología . 15: 47–53.
• G. Talarico, J. G. Palacios-Vargas & G. Alberti (2008). "The pedipalp of Pseudocellus pearsei (Ricinulei, Arachnida) – ultrastructure of a multifunctional organ". Arthropod Structure & Development . 37 (6): 511–521. Bibcode:2008ArtSD..37..511T. doi:10.1016/j.asd.2008.02.001. PMID   18502688.
• Giovanni Talarico; Jose G. Palacios-Vargas; Mariano Fuentes Silva; Gerd Alberti (2005). "First ultrastructural observations on the tarsal pore organ of Pseudocellus pearsei and P. boneti (Arachnida, Ricinulei)". Journal of Arachnology . 33 (2): 604–612. doi:10.1636/04-110.1. JSTOR   4129861. S2CID   86221977.
• Giovanni Talarico; José G. Palacios-Vargas; Mariano Fuentes Silva; Gerd Alberti (2008). "Ultrastructure of tarsal sensilla and other integument structures of two Pseudocellus species (Ricinulei, Arachnida)". Journal of Morphology . 267 (4): 441–463. doi: 10.1002/jmor.10415 . PMID   16425267. S2CID   25580911.

External links

• Data related to Pseudocellus at Wikispecies