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Issue: Vol. 5686 No. 4: 29 Aug. 2025
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Published: 2025-08-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5686.4.5
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Palaeochiridiinae subfam. nov. (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones: Pseudochiridiidae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, with a description of new genus and species

Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters; Russian Academy of Sciences; Yaroslavl Region; Russia; T.I. Vyazemsky Karadag Scientific Station – Nature Reserve of the RAS – Branch of A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of RAS; Theodosia; Crimea
Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters; Russian Academy of Sciences; Yaroslavl Region; Russia; Institute of Environmental and Agricultural Biology (X-BIO); Tyumen State University; Tyumen; Russia
Koltzov Institute of Developmental Biology; Russian Academy of Sciences; Moscow; Russia
Demidov Yaroslavl State University; Yaroslavl; Russia
Borissiak Paleontological Institute; Russian Academy of Sciences; Moscow; Russia
Natural History Museum of Denmark; Copenhagen; Denmark
Pseudoscorpiones morphology paleontology taxonomy Cenomanian false scorpions biogeography paleohabitat

Abstract

A new subfamily, genus and species of pseudochiridiid pseudoscorpions is described from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Myanmar), including a detailed diagnosis and illustrations: Palaeochiridium insolitum gen. et sp. nov. (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) is the first valid species of the family Pseudochiridiidae from Burmese amber. Diagnostic, biogeographic, paleohabitat and ecological features of this new species are presented and discussed, and are compared to the related extinct and extant species of this family.

 

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How to Cite

Turbanov, I.S., Kolesnikov, V.B., Vorontsov, D.D., Shadrin, D.S., Vasilenko, D.V. & Perkovsky, E.E. (2025) Palaeochiridiinae subfam. nov. (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones: Pseudochiridiidae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, with a description of new genus and species. Zootaxa, 5686 (4), 536–554. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5686.4.5