Pseudochactidae

Pseudochactidae
Vietbocap canhi. Scale bar is 10 mm.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Scorpiones
Parvorder:	Pseudochactida Soleglad and Fet, 2003
Superfamily:	Pseudochactoidea Gromov, 1998
Family:	Pseudochactidae Gromov, 1998
Subfamilies
Pseudochactinae Vietbocapinae

The Pseudochactidae are a scorpion family. They are predominantly found in caves. ^[1]

Genera

• Aemngvantom Prendini & Ehrenthal & Loria, 2021
• Pseudochactas Gromov, 1998
• Troglokhammouanus Lourenço, 2007 ^[2]
• Vietbocap Lourenço & Pham, 2010

References

1. Loria, Stephanie F; Ehrenthal, Valentin L; Nguyen, Anh D; Prendini, Lorenzo (1 November 2022). "Climate Relicts: Asian Scorpion Family Pseudochactidae Survived Miocene Aridification in Caves of the Annamite Mountains" . Insect Systematics and Diversity. 6 (6): 3. doi:10.1093/isd/ixac028 . Retrieved 27 December 2022.
2. Lourenço, Wilson R. (October 2007). "First record of the family Pseudochactidae Gromov (Chelicerata, Scorpiones) from Laos and new biogeographic evidence of a Pangaean palaeodistribution". Comptes Rendus Biologies. 330 (10): 770–777. doi:10.1016/j.crvi.2007.07.006. PMID   17905397.

• Gromov, A.V. 1998: A new family, genus and species of scorpions (Arachnida, Scorpiones) from southern Central Asia. Zoologicheskii zhurnal, 77(9): 1003–1008. [not seen, in Russian with English summary, English translation in Russian journal of zoology, 2: 409–413. (1998)]
• Lourenço, W.R.; Pham, D.-S. 2010: A remarkable new cave scorpion of the family Pseudochactidae Gromov (Chelicerata, Scorpiones) from Vietnam. ZooKeys, 71: 1–13. doi : 10.3897/zookeys.71.786

External links

• Data related to Pseudochactidae at Wikispecies