Paratemnoides pallidus ( Balzan, 1892 )

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 : 53

Paratemnoides pallidus ( Balzan, 1892)

( Figs 6 H, 6K)

Chelifer (Atemnus) pallidus Balzan 1892: 511 –512, fig 2, 2a.

Chelifer plebejus (not With, 1906): Tullgren 1907: 55, fig 15; Ellingsen, 1914: 4 (in part) (misidentifications).

Paratemnus ceylonicus Beier, 1932c: 569 ; Beier 1932b: 39 –40, fig 43–44; Beier 1973: 47 (synonymized by Klausen 2005: 647, fig 18).

Paratemnoides pallidus (Balzan) : Harvey 1991: 472 –473; Klausen 2005: 647.

Distribution. Burundi; Cameroon; Congo; Côte d’Ivoire; Democratic Republic of Congo ( Zaire); Equatorial Guinea; Gabon; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; India; Kenya; Malaysia; São Tomé and Príncipe; Sierra Leone (type locality); Sri Lanka; Togo; Uganda.

Previous records. Western Province: Yakkala; Southern Province: Kosgoda, Udugama; Sabaragamuwa Province: Deerwood estate Kuruwita; Uva Province: Westminister Abbey; North Central Province: Maradan Maduwa, Minneriya ( Beier 1973).

New records. Central Province: Kandy District: L 3 & L 17; North Western Province: Kurunegala District: L 10 & L 26.

Remarks. Common in Sri Lanka.

Figures

FIGURE 6. A. Nhatrangia ceylonensis, female, Maradanmaduwa. B. Ceriochernes besucheti, male, Ethagala Range. C. Parachernes (Parachernes) cocophilus, male, Pilikuttuwa. D. Parachernes (Parachernes) cocophilus, female, Ridigama. E. Verrucachernes oca, male, Wanathavillua. F. Verrucachernes cf. oca, nymph, Bopath Ella. G. Cryptocheiridium sp., Inginiyagala. H – K (all under bark of Jackfruit tree), H. Adult males of Paratemnoides pallidus (above) and Parachernes (Parachernes) cocophilus from Kurunegala. I. Adult P. (P.) cocophilus, male and P. pallidus nymph in chamber-like structure. J. P. (P.) cocophilus male grabbing a nymph of P. pallidus. K. P. (P.) cocophilus, colony with P. pallidus female (right).