Indogarypus Beier, 1957

Batuwita, Sudesh & Benjamin, Suresh P., 2014, An annotated checklist and a family key to the pseudoscorpion fauna (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) of Sri Lanka, Zootaxa 3814 (1), pp. 37-67 : 47

Genus Indogarypus Beier, 1957

Remarks. The subgenus Indogarypus was erected by Beier (1957). However, he did not mention it in his paper on the Sri Lanka fauna ( Beier 1973). Later, the Sri Lankan species Geogarypus ceylonicus was transferred to the subgenus Indogarypus by Murthy & Ananthakrishnan (1977). Harvey (1986) raised Geogarypidae to family status and recognized three genera, including Indogarypus , which was elevated to generic rank ( Harvey 1986). However, Murthy & Ananthakrishnan’s (1977) transfer of G. ceylonicus to Indogarypus was not accepted by Harvey (1986), leaving Indogarypus monotypic. The specimens collected from L 10, L 11, L 19 and L 22 (4 ex.), correspond well to the description given by Beier (1973) for G. ceylonicus Beier, 1973 and all our mature specimens possess interno-lateral sulci on the pedipalpal chela, which is considered diagnostic for the genus Indogarypus ( Harvey 1986) . Thus, G. ceylonicus is here transferred to Indogarypus .