An annotated checklist and a family key to the pseudoscorpion fauna (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) of Sri Lanka
Author
Batuwita, Sudesh
Author
Benjamin, Suresh P.
text
Zootaxa
2014
3814
1
37
67
journal article
36838
10.11646/zootaxa.3814.1.2
cfd097cc-dab1-426f-9d0f-b8dd58ef9ae6
1175-5326
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Mucrochelifer borneoensis
(
Ellingsen, 1901
)
Chelifer borneoensis
Ellingsen 1901
: 206
–208;
Ellingsen 1914
: 6
–7.
Mucrochelifer borneoensis
(Ellingsen)
:
Beier 1932b
: 250
–251, figs 258–259;
Harvey 1991
: 518
.
Distribution.
Indonesia
("Borneo", Java;
type
locality);
Myanmar
;
Papua New Guinea
;
Sri Lanka
.
Previous record.
Central Province:
Peradeniya, under loose bark of Jackfruit tree (
Ellingsen 1914
).
Remarks.
Not found in the present study. The record of
Mucrochelifer borneoensis
by
Ellingsen (1913)
might be a misidentification. According to
Ellingsen (1913)
, the Sri Lankan specimen, an adult male, was smaller than the
type
from Borneo. He further notes that the tarsal claws of leg I lacked teeth. Since the Sri Lankan specimen was a mature male, it should have possessed these characteristic teeth illustrated by
Beier (1932b, fig 258)
.