Chthonioidea

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Chthonioidea
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Pseudoscorpion Chthonius from W Serbia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Pseudoscorpiones
Suborder: Heterosphyronida
Superfamily: Chthonioidea
Families

The Chthonioidea are a superfamily of pseudoscorpions, representing the earliest diverging and most primitive living pseudoscorpions. The superfamily contains two families. [1]

Some authors consider the genus Lechytia to be in its own family Lechytiidae, rather than to reside in Chthoniidae. [2]

Footnotes

  1. Benavides, Ligia R.; Cosgrove, Julia G.; Harvey, Mark S.; Giribet, Gonzalo (October 2019). "Phylogenomic interrogation resolves the backbone of the Pseudoscorpiones tree of life". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 139: 106509. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2019.05.023. PMID   31132522. S2CID   167218890.
  2. Biology Catalog: Lechytiidae Archived 2014-07-30 at the Wayback Machine


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