Megachernes Beier, 1932

Xu, Hongru, Gao, Zhizhong & Zhang, Feng, 2022, Two new species of the pseudoscorpion subfamily Lamprochernetinae Beier, 1932 from Guizhou, China (Pseudoscorpiones: Chernetidae), Zootaxa 5105 (4), pp. 581-592 : 587-591

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5105.4.7

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6335115

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Megachernes Beier, 1932
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Genus Megachernes Beier, 1932 View in CoL

Megachernes Beier, 1932: 128 View in CoL ; Beier, 1933: 518; Beier, 1948: 476; Morikawa, 1960: 144; Harvey, 1991: 599.

Type species: Chernes grandis Beier, 1930 , by original designation.

Key to the Chinese species of Megachernes

1. Leg IV femur + patella with numerous glandular microsetae........................... M. glandulosus Mahnert, 2009 View in CoL

- Leg IV femur + patella without glandular microsetae......................................................... 2

2. Male pedipalpal patella with hump................................................. M. tuberosus Mahnert, 2009 View in CoL

- Male pedipalpal patella without hump..................................................................... 3

3. Pedipalpal femur less than 4.00 times longer than board....................................................... 4

- Pedipalpal femur more than 4.00 times longer than board..................................... M. titanius Beier, 1951 View in CoL

4. Leg IV femur + patella more than 4.00 times longer than deep.................................................. 5

- Leg IV femur + patella less than 4.00 times longer than deep................................................... 6

5. Movable chelal finger with 9 retrolateral accessory teeth; all blades of rallum smooth..... M. himalayensis (Ellingsen, 1914) View in CoL

- Movable chelal finger with 21 retrolateral accessory teeth; only distal blade of rallum denticulate.................................................................................................... M. vietnamensis Beier, 1967 View in CoL

6. Only distal blade of rallum denticulate; st situated closer to t than to sb ........................ M. grandis (Beier, 1930)

- All blades of rallum denticulate; st situated closer to sb than to t ................................ M. biyunensis sp. nov.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Pseudoscorpiones

Family

Chernetidae

SubFamily

Lamprochernetinae

Loc

Megachernes Beier, 1932

Xu, Hongru, Gao, Zhizhong & Zhang, Feng 2022
2022
Loc

Megachernes

Beier, M. 1932: 128
1932
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