Lechytia kuscheli Beier, 1957

Mahnert, Volker, 2011, New records of pseudoscorpions from the Juan Fernandez Islands (Chile), with the description of a new genus and three new species of Chernetidae (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones)., Revue suisse de Zoologie 118 (1), pp. 17-29 : 18

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5962/bhl.part.117795
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6311231
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scientific name	Lechytia kuscheli Beier, 1957
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MATERIAL STUDIED: MHNG, 1 ♀; Juan Fernandez Is., Masatierra, forest above Puerto Ingles, 14.XI.1968, leg. H. Franz (Sa 197-198). – MHNG, 1 P; Juan Fernandez Is., ex coll. V.Vitali-di Castri (OT-2) .

REMARKS: The species is known from different localities on Masatierra; the unique female is characterized as follows. Cephalothorax as long as broad (0.40 mm / 0.40 mm); pedipalpal femur 4.3 times longer than broad (0.42 mm / 0.10 mm) and 2.0 times longer than patella, which is 1.8 times longer than broad (0.21 mm / 0.12 mm); hand 1.7 times longer than deep (0.27 mm / 0.16 mm), chela 4.0 times longer than deep (length 0.63 mm); finger 1.5 times (length 0.39 mm) longer than hand. Chelal fingers with about 36 low and partly indistinct teeth (their canals still visible in tooth lamella); apical seta of pedipalpal coxa simple, apex sinoid; coxa of leg I with a pointed anterior projection.

Muchmore (1975) distinguished two groups in the genus Lechytia by the form of the apical seta on the pedipalpal coxa, which is either furcate (e.g. L. sini Muchmore, arborea Muchmore, chthoniiformis Balzan) or simple (e.g. L. hoffi Muchmore, L. kuscheli , and L. chilensis Beier ).