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Issue: Vol. 4853 No. 4: 24 Sept. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-09-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4853.4.6
Page range: 572–580
Abstract views: 95
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Two new cave-dwelling species of Tyrannochthonius Chamberlin 1929 (Pseudoscorpiones: Chthoniidae) from the Guizhou karst, China

Department of Biology, Wutai Mountain Institute of Resource and Environment, Xinzhou Teachers University, Xinzhou 034000, Shanxi Province, P. R. China.
The Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China.
Institute of Biology, Guizhou Academy of Sciences, Guiyang, P. R. China.
Pseudoscorpiones Tyrannochthonius troglobite morphology taxonomy

Abstract

Two new troglomorphic pseudoscorpion species, Tyrannochthonius harveyi, sp. nov. and Tyrannochthonius zhai, sp. nov., are described from the dark zone of caves in the tower karst of the Guizhou Province in China. Both species are presently known only from single caves and are likely to have very restricted distribution ranges.

 

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